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‖ kinaki N.Z.|kiˈnaki| [Maori.] A relish; a tasty or savoury addition to a meal.
1820Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. (Church Missionary Soc.) 164 Kinaki, victuals, added for variety's sake. 1873T. Chapman in W. L. Buller Hist. Birds N.Z. 93 Norway rats..by diving for these freshwater pipis, provide a kinaki (relish) for their vegetable suppers. 1878Trans. N.Z. Inst. XI. 76 Fifty years back it would have been a poor hapu that could not afford a slave or two as a kinaki, or relish, on such an occasion. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 17 If his kinaki (relish) were fish, his predatory instincts invented the means to catch them. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira x. 70 This man's body..was eaten as a relish—kinaki—with the fern-root. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. i. 110 Less difficulty was experienced in providing the meat complement, or kinaki, to go with the vegetable foods. |