Word: moko
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...Once admitted, members are "patched," with the right to flaunt the gang's emblem on clothes or in fearsome tattoos on faces, shoulders and bodies. Sociologist Jarrod Gilbert says the latter practice grew out of a combination of jailhouse tattoos and traditional Maori moko. "They would be the only street gangs in the world to tattoo a patch onto their face," he says. Members tell of one Mongrel Mob initiate whose enthusiasm so exceeded his intelligence that he used a mirror while tattooing the gang's name across his own face-backward...
...little tics and iniquities that live underneath the perfectly filled coke glasses and the uneaten crusts of delivery pizza that populate this coming-of-age story. On this ostensibly ordinary Sunday afternoon, the rituals and securities of childhood are turned upside down. The plans of 14-year-old Moko (Diego Cataño) and Flama (Daniel Miranda) are derailed by Ulises (Enrique Arreola), a neurotic pizza deliveryman, and Rita (Danny Perea), the cute, older girl-next-door. Questions about a painting in Flama’s living room, which appropriately depicts symbolic migrating ducks, reveal that his parents are amidst...
...Dictionary of Maori Words in New Zealand English, published last month by Oxford University Press, suggests the flow of Maori into English won't be stopping anytime soon. Kiwi English is not just annexing Maori words, from Pakeha (European) to whanau (extended family). It's giving them English inflections (moko-ed for tattooed; haka-ing for dancing), and playing with them to create hybrids like maka-chilly (from makariri, cold). "You can't get far these days without having to use a Maori word," says Haami Piripi, chief executive of the Maori Language Commission, which promotes...
Hinkle says in a gleeful tone, “Our biggest prize was Pépé Le Moko. The film is beautiful and amazing, but we didn’t think it’d be that successful...