onioni

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication of oni.

Verb

onioni

  1. to thrust or twerk one's hips in a sexually suggestive way
  2. to make love, to copulate, to bed someone
    Synonyms: ai, ori, tauonioni

Derived terms

  • tauonioni
  • kopikopi “to gyrate, to jiggle”

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “oni, onioni”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 279
  • “onioni” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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