kapai

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

adj.


Maori word for good, usedby the English in the North Island of New Zealand; e.g. «That isa kapai pipe.» «I have a kapai gun.»

1896. `New Zealand Herald,' Feb. 14 (Leading Article):

«The Maori word which passed most familiarly into the speechof Europeans was `kapai,' `this is good.'»