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▪ I. puku1|ˈpuːkuː|
Also pookoo.
[ad. Zulu mpuku.]
A red water-buck or antelope (Cobus vardoni) found in southern Central Africa.
1881[see lechwe]. 1890in Cent. Dict. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 245, I saw three roan antelopes and a few pookoos (Cobus vardoni). 1894Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 304 The puku is about the size of the pala, standing some 3 feet 3 inches at the shoulder. 1900W. L. Sclater Mammals S. Afr. I. 193 The flesh of the puku is stated by Selous to be even more nauseous and unpalatable than that of the common water-buck. 1946,1972[see lechwe]. 1973D. Steele Game Sanctuaries S. Afr. 148 The puku is a medium-sized antelope, weighing up to 90 kilograms.
▪ II. ‖ puku2 N.Z. colloq.|ˈpʊkʊ|
[Maori.]
The stomach.
[1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 96 The Maori is pre-eminently gifted in the selection of suitable nomenclature... He meets a man... He looks him over... If he be massive in girth, what so delicate as reference thereto as ‘Puku’ (stomach)? 1918C. H. Weston Three Years with New Zealanders vi. 70 The Medical Officer..injected the [anti-typhoid] serum in what the Maories call my puku. ]1941Baker N.Z. Slang. v. 42 By the 1890's..a stomach-ache became, with excellent alliterative effect, a pain in the puku. 1954Numbers July 5 Let's stick to matters of the puku. 1958M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More ii. 50 Eat, Harry boy, eat; get some of this in your puku. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. viii. 170 The [Maori] words potae ‘hat’ and puku ‘stomach’ are still current, but North Island words mainly. 1971N.Z. Listener 19 Apr. 57/1 He was too stonkered and crook in the puku to bother about it at the time. 1978P. Grace Mutuwhenua xx. 140 Your puku's getting in the way. |