a Maori word for food eaten withanother kind to give it a relish. Compare Grk. 'opson.
1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'(Church Missionary Society), p. 164:
«Kinaki. Victuals, added for variety's sake.»
1873. `Appendix to Journal of House of Representatives,'vol. iii. G. 1, p. 5:
«If it be a Maori who is taken by me, he will also bemade into a kinaki for my cabbage.»
1878. R. C. Barstow, `Transactions of New ZealandInstitute,' vol. XI. art. iv. p. 71:
«Fifty years ago it would have been a poor hapu that couldnot afford a slave or two as a kinaki, or relish, on such anoccasion.»