Hongi is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HONGI in dictionary:

VERB:
• to greet by touching nose to nose
• touch noses
NOUN:
• (Maori) a traditional greeting, touching nose to nose
• a traditional Maori greeting in which people press their noses together.
• Māori greeting in which people touch noses
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to greet another by pressing noses together
• Māori greeting in which people touch noses

Words related to HONGI

hongied12 hongies11 hongiing13 hongis10

Words that contain HONGI

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How to use HONGI in a sentence

• The famous warrior Hongi had attacked it several times, but had always been defeated with great loss.
• The foe, hearing this, paused, when about a dozen chiefs, and indeed, as Hongi well knew, all that he had, suddenly made their appearance.
• All were streaming with tears and blood, while Hongi and his friends embarked in their large and richly-ornamented canoes, and sailed from our beach.
• A rumour was circulated in the village that Hongi, who now lay at the point of death, had declared that he would make one last glorious effort before he expired.
• We at length received authentic intelligence of the death of the celebrated Hongi.
• For the rest, Hongi and the Maoris were the war lords, and the fiery torch was generally abroad.
• Hongi had been quick to discern the road to conquest, which musket, gun-powder, and bullet would give him in New Zealand against the native weapons.
• Te-Whero-Whero, another Maori chief, complained to me, while we were discussing Hongi, that it was quite unfair he, should have been cut down in that fashion.
• The first native protector of Christianity and letters was Hongi Hika, a great warrior of the Ngapuhi nation, in the North Island.
• Hongi was surprised to hear that the King had to ask permission of anyone to dispose of his wife Caroline.
• He rubbed noses with Hongi and Ruatara, and shook hands with Marsden, who passed on unharmed to the Bay of Islands.
• Hongi, the chief of the Ngapuhi tribe, before referred to, is usually spoken of as the first to introduce the musket into the tribal wars.
• Hongi saw the bravest warriors run before the new and terrible weapon.
• It has been pleaded for Hongi that he protected the missionaries, and that by forcing his race to get guns at any price he unwittingly developed trade.
• Determined to carry out the threats he had made in Sydney, Hongi began his campaigns by sailing southward with a great fleet of war-canoes.
• Between 1821 and 1827 Hongi carried fire and sword into almost every corner of what is now the Province of Auckland.
• Harried from the north by Hongi, the wretched people of the Thames were between the hammer and the anvil.
• Hongi once dead and the Ngapuhi beaten off, the always formidable Waikato tribes began in turn to play the part of raiders.
• Without the skill of Hongi, or the craft of Te Waharoa, he was a keen and active fighter.
• Like Hongi, Rauparaha saw that the man with the most muskets must carry all before him in New Zealand.
• Rauparaha set out for Kapiti a year before Hongi sailed for England on his fatal quest.

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