Lexicographical Neighbors of Pukekos
| puissantly puissantness puja pujah pujahs pujari pujas puka pukas puke | puke up puked pukeface pukefaces pukeko pukekos (current term) puker pukers pukes pukey | pukin' puking pukka puku pukus pul pula pulas pulasan pulasan tree |
Literary usage of Pukekos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present : Savage and Civilized by Arthur Saunders Thomson (1859)
"... ducks, pigeons, and pukekos; but none furnished sport equal to the bringing
down of partridge and blackcock in old England. There was no fresh-water ..."
2. The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present : Savage and Civilized by Arthur Saunders Thomson (1866)
"... ducks, pigeons, and pukekos; but none furnished sport equal to the bringing
down of partridge and blackcock in old England. There was no fresh-water ..."
3. The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present : Savage and Civilized by Arthur Saunders Thomson (1866)
"Everything being ready, the emigrants put on board the canoes seeds of the sweet
potato, karaka berries, gourds, taros, rats, parrots, pukekos, dogs, ..."
4. The Progress of New Zealand in the Century by Robert Francis Irvine, Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers (1902)
"... pukekos, quails, moreporks, and wild pigs." The Maoris were friendly and seemed
much amused that permission should be asked them to trail a chain along ..."
5. Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand: Settlement of Otago by Thomas Morland Hocken (1898)
"... pukekos, quails, moreporks, and wild pigs. The stay in the harbour was not
devoid of its little incidents. The Maoris were very friendly, ..."
6. Round about New Zealand: Being Notes from a Journal of Three Years by E. W. Payton (1888)
"pukekos, or swamp-hens, were plentiful on every side, and hundreds can be shot
in a day in the neighbourhood of a swamp, but they are hardly worth powder ..."
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