Maori place names?

[martybabe]

I have recently been granted permanent residency of New Zealand, which the Bride and I are totally stoked about.
Now out of respect for our new home I thought I'd step up to the game and study all things mysterious and Kiwi. Today's lesson, as we have just bought a new house, was to find out the history of the area we have chosen to live in and the meaning of the Maori place names in the area.

Our new address is a bit of a tongue twister for us pommy types, so I asked the bride if she could find a house in the next village, as' Mimi', was easier to say. I subsequently found out that Mimi means Piss so I'm actually quite glad she told me to Fack off.

So without further ado My new address, Roughly translated,( Apologies to those that know what they're talking about), Is, Bracken fern root hill Rd, Big penis near Piss :scratch::killingme:rofl:

I'm thinking, unless this is a one off and I am a really fortunate person, some Maori place names must translate into wonderful English versions, I heard rumour Of a place called Big shit, can this be true? What Places do you know that translate either appropriately or humorously, please share.

Oh and any one that can re-translate my address will get a big juicy Green bling.....

[rustyrobot]

Well, you obviously live in Urenui, near Mimi. I can't pick the street name from the description you have given though.
Not sure about big shit, but there is definitely 'the shit' (Te teko).

Now, just for some balance, here's some British place names to mull over...
* Ae
* Asick Bottom
* Backside
* Badger
* Bell End
* Beeby
* Beer
* Besses o'th' Barn
* Biggar
* Bishops Itchington
* Bitchfield
* Blubberhouses
* Bottom Head
* Bogend
* Bucklers Hard
* Bummers Hill
* Burpham
* Bush
* Buttock Point
* Buttocks Booth
* Chess
* Cock Bridge
* Cocking
* Cocklick End
* Cockpole Green
* Cockermouth
* Crackpot
* Crapstone
* Crook of Devon (Scotland)
* Currie
* Dead
* Dogdyke
* Dole
* Droop
* Duck End
* Dyke
* Fatfield
* Fattahead
* Fingringhoe
* Foul End
* Gaywood
* Goosey
* Great Fryupdale
* Great Snoring
* Ham
* Happy Bottom
* Hetton-le-Hole
* Horsey Windpump
* Hungry Law
* Kingston Bagpuize
* Land of Nod
* Lickfold
* Leatherhead
* Lickey End
* Locksbottom
* Loggerheads
* Looe
* Loose
* Lover

* Lower Slaughter
* Muff
* Muffworthy
* Nasty
* Nether Wallop
* New York
* Nobber
* No Place
* Old Wives' Lees
* Oldtown of Ord
* Once Brewed
* Outcast
* Pant
* Penistone
* Peover Superior
* Piddle
* Piddlehinton
* Piddletrenthide
* Pity Me
* Plucks Gutter
* Plush
* Pratts Bottom
* Quaking Houses
* Ramsbottom
* Rashy Height
* Ring of Kerry
* Rhodesia
* Salt
* Sandwich
* Shaggie Burn
* Sheepy Magna
* Skinners Bottom
* Slack
* Slaggyford
* Snodland
* Spital-in-the-Street
* Splatt
* Splott
* Street
* The Hard
* The O A
* Thong
* Thrashbush
* Three Cocks
* Titsey
* Titty Hill
* Toe Head
* Tongue
* Tumby Woodside
* Twatt
* Twydall
* Ugley
* Upper Dicker
* Upper Thong
* Wetwang
* Wideopen
* Willey
* Wormegay
* Wyre Piddle

[davereid]

some Maori place names must translate into wonderful English versions, I heard rumour Of a place called Big shit, can this be true?

Your "big shit" is Tutaenui. There are a few of them in NZ.

The man who cleans my septic tank has the number plate Tutae.

[rustic101]

Whykickamoocow?

[Katman]

Now, just for some balance, here's some British place names to mull over...


You missed out Dorking.

[martybabe]

Well, you obviously live in Urenui, near Mimi. I can't pick the street name from the description you have given though.
Not sure about big shit, but there is definitely 'the shit' (Te teko).

Now, just for some balance, here's some British place names to mull over...




:laugh: Yes yes but to be fair, being English I would know full well that my Grandma lived in wetwang near ramsbottom :laugh: But people not familiar with the language may regret the fact when they find out they've just bought a beautiful riverside cottage in a place called frequentlyflooded just down the road from deluge hill. Personally, I'm happy with big Penis, it's certainly preferable to.....


Your "big shit" is Tutaenui. There are a few of them in NZ.

The man who cleans my septic tank has the number plate Tutae.

........ Ah, there it is, thanks Dave. Any idea why the place would bear such a name? is it based on something that happened there? do I really want to know? :eek:


Whykickamoocow?

I believe yous just made that up :laugh:

[rickstv]

and dont forget .... Myrighteye

[Whynot]

I believe yous just made that up :laugh:

nope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikikamukau

[rwh]

What Places do you know that translate either appropriately or humorously, please share.

Urewera - as in the big national park that's been in the news - hot penis.

Apparently, tradition requires abstinence for warriors the night before a big fight - but nothing can stop the dreaming. And once, someone was sleeping too close to the remains of the fire ...

Richard

[98tls]

Urewera - as in the big national park that's been in the news - hot penis.

Apparently, tradition requires abstinence for warriors the night before a big fight - but nothing can stop the dreaming. And once, someone was sleeping too close to the remains of the fire ...

Richard
Possibly why so many of em prefer to be locked up.

[martybabe]

nope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikikamukau

I stand corrected :yes:


Urewera - as in the big national park that's been in the news - hot penis.

Apparently, tradition requires abstinence for warriors the night before a big fight - but nothing can stop the dreaming. And once, someone was sleeping too close to the remains of the fire ...

Richard

Excellent stuff, history as well, good job. So if these places are named for a reason such as yours, what on earth lies behind big shit :gob:

[Whynot]

what on earth lies behind big shit :gob:

I think thats pretty obvious ....

[Berries]

You missed out Dorking.

That's not a town, it's a sex act. Like Taieri Mouth.

[Maha]

Maungatewopwop?.....na hang on, thats Mountian The Italian.

[Mudfart]

waipu? pronounced why-poo. puhoi pronounced poo-hoy. get the pattern?. lots of poo here.

[Dave Lobster]

lots of poo here.

Be more were it not for:


Possibly why so many of em prefer to be locked up.

[PrincessBandit]

And if you live where i live, and talking about poo, then Manurewa says it all for itself......

[MSTRS]

Tutae is generally accepted to mean 'shit'...what it really means is 'waste' - as in guts and their contents.
We have the Tutaekuri River near us = Dog Shit

[MSTRS]

Try this one for size...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu

[martybabe]

Try this one for size...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu

Speaking of the wonderful Maori language:

I hear there will be a re-make of silence of the lambs for Maori speakers, entitled,' Shut up Ewes'.:laugh:

[Maha]

Tutae is generally accepted to mean 'shit'...what it really means is 'waste' - as in guts and their contents.
We have the Tutaekuri River near us = Dog Shit

Shit also be Kaka/Teke/Teko/Da Shizbro....
TeTeko = The shit. and if you have ever been there, yes, they got that one right.

[MSTRS]

Shit also be Kaka/Teke/Teko/Da Shizbro....
TeTeko = The shit. and if you have ever been there, yes, they got that one right.

Well - we have shit, poos, crap, doodoos, no.2s, etc. Who said Maori can't have more than one word for (something)...

[Mom]

Well - we have shit, poos, crap, doodoos, no.2s, etc. Who said Maori can't have more than one word for (something)...

You forgot plops and jobbies.

[Fatt Max]

This thread has turned to crap

[MSTRS]

Well - we have shit, poos, crap, doodoos, no.2s, etc. Who said Maori can't have more than one word for (something)...


You forgot plops and jobbies.
No, I didn't...

[Mom]

No, I didn't...

etc does not cut the mustard, or the cheese.

[MSTRS]

It does in my world. Parp!

[Skyryder]

Whykickamoocow?

When you can Whukamookau.


Skyryder

[Mudfart]

whatapu=what a poo.

[ynot slow]

Sell the farken hog you're brains scrambled.

Each tribe had own dialect,in Sth Naki- Tawhiti is pronounced Tarfiti by most new age idiots,but my native kamatua told me her tribe called it Tarwitti as in tar witty thus not pronouncing wh as f.

Doesn't matter but Mimi is a long way from a pub?

[oldrider]

Careful, you (the government, the rugby union and uncle Tom Cobley and all) will be having to apologise soon! :shutup:

[martybabe]

Doesn't matter but Mimi is a long way from a pub?

Yes but not very far from a brewery where they sell the best brown beer in Taranaki, English ale made by Germans by the white cliffs of Dover next to big Penis, man I love this crazy country:apint:


Careful, you (the government, the rugby union and uncle Tom Cobley and all) will be having to apologise soon! :shutup:

You got that right, It's all gone a bit too far eh, as far as I'm aware I haven't done anything wrong but I'd like to apologise anyway, just in case.:rolleyes:

[Pixie]

Well, you obviously live in Urenui, near Mimi. I can't pick the street name from the description you have given though.
Not sure about big shit, but there is definitely 'the shit' (Te teko).

Now, just for some balance, here's some British place names to mull over...
* Ae
* Asick Bottom
* Backside
* Badger
* Bell End
* Beeby
* Beer
* Besses o'th' Barn
* Biggar
* Bishops Itchington
* Bitchfield
* Blubberhouses
* Bottom Head
* Bogend
* Bucklers Hard
* Bummers Hill
* Burpham
* Bush
* Buttock Point
* Buttocks Booth
* Chess
* Cock Bridge
* Cocking
* Cocklick End
* Cockpole Green
* Cockermouth
* Crackpot
* Crapstone
* Crook of Devon (Scotland)
* Currie
* Dead
* Dogdyke
* Dole
* Droop
* Duck End
* Dyke
* Fatfield
* Fattahead
* Fingringhoe
* Foul End
* Gaywood
* Goosey
* Great Fryupdale
* Great Snoring
* Ham
* Happy Bottom
* Hetton-le-Hole
* Horsey Windpump
* Hungry Law
* Kingston Bagpuize
* Land of Nod
* Lickfold
* Leatherhead
* Lickey End
* Locksbottom
* Loggerheads
* Looe
* Loose
* Lover

* Lower Slaughter
* Muff
* Muffworthy
* Nasty
* Nether Wallop
* New York
* Nobber
* No Place
* Old Wives' Lees
* Oldtown of Ord
* Once Brewed
* Outcast
* Pant
* Penistone
* Peover Superior
* Piddle
* Piddlehinton
* Piddletrenthide
* Pity Me
* Plucks Gutter
* Plush
* Pratts Bottom
* Quaking Houses
* Ramsbottom
* Rashy Height
* Ring of Kerry
* Rhodesia
* Salt
* Sandwich
* Shaggie Burn
* Sheepy Magna
* Skinners Bottom
* Slack
* Slaggyford
* Snodland
* Spital-in-the-Street
* Splatt
* Splott
* Street
* The Hard
* The O A
* Thong
* Thrashbush
* Three Cocks
* Titsey
* Titty Hill
* Toe Head
* Tongue
* Tumby Woodside
* Twatt
* Twydall
* Ugley
* Upper Dicker
* Upper Thong
* Wetwang
* Wideopen
* Willey
* Wormegay
* Wyre Piddle

Is Cocklick End near Gaywood?

[Bren]

I live close to "Scraps of an earth oven"

[Hans]

I live close to "Scraps of an earth oven"

I thought the non-pc translation read "Remains-in-the-earth-oven". Not a joke either.

[admenk]

You must live just up the road from me - Pukerarahu Road ??? We're another pommy couple out at Carrs Road (boring English place name there I'm afraid) Get in touch and we can meet for a cup of tea and a scone !!

[nothingflash]

Try this one for size...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu

As sung by Beth Andrews and Jake Van Dyke in "Mere Poppins"

[martybabe]

You must live just up the road from me - Pukerarahu Road ??? We're another pommy couple out at Carrs Road (boring English place name there I'm afraid) Get in touch and we can meet for a cup of tea and a scone !!

Excellent Stuff, you win bling, spellings a bit off but that's OK I can't spell or pronounce half the places I visit.

I went up Carrs rd Today by coincidence, just checking out the local area, not an awful lot going on eh :laugh:

I will be in touch mate, not actually out at big Penis for a couple more weeks but yeah, see you soon :niceone:

[sosman]

Wahine = Women......Tane = Man........& a Homo maori man = Whakatane :lol:

[Bounce001]

NZ places are bad enough, but when my brother was living in England a few years ago he lived in the Godown Cottage on Godown Lane!

[admenk]

I went up Carrs rd Today by coincidence, just checking out the local area, not an awful lot going on eh

How can you say there wasn't much going on up Carrs Rd ? I was watching paint dry today and I could swear I could see the grass growing....

[martybabe]

NZ places are bad enough, but when my brother was living in England a few years ago he lived in the Godown Cottage on Godown Lane!

I actually lived up the road from lickey end by Birmingham, strangely I never realised the significance of the name till I came here.


How can you say there wasn't much going on up Carrs Rd ? I was watching paint dry today and I could swear I could see the grass growing....

How rude of me, the grass was indeed growing and I did see an interesting cow, I guess I just expect too much in the way of entertainment eh :laugh:

[MSTRS]

Anyone who fails to see the humour in 'Licky End' is bound to be easily entertained...:shifty:

[admenk]

been up the Lickey Hills a few times myself - is that rude ??

[martybabe]

Anyone who fails to see the humour in 'Licky End' is bound to be easily entertained...:shifty:

Lickey end, lickey incline, lickey hills, wouldn't have raised a titter amongst my school friends that would generally swim in a sea of toilet humour and innuendo on a daily basis, just places everybody knew up the road ,however, introducing myself as cuming from Big Penis would be a sure-fire winner with the class and a definite appointment with the headmasters cane. I think my Toilet humour is just a bit more highbrow than yer average kiwi .Bum tits arse poo...see.:laugh:


been up the Lickey Hills a few times myself - is that rude ??

No not rude at all, what I did to Shirley McFadden up the Lickey Hills was very very rude though:yes: I wonder if she ever did get those pine needles out of..... :shutup:

[peasea]

I did see an interesting cow, I guess I just expect too much in the way of entertainment eh :laugh:

I think you'll find that in the 'Naki the cows ARE the entertainment.

Mooooving on...........

[Scorp]

Now, just for some balance, here's some British place names to mull over...
You forgot Six Mile Bottom.

Then there's the best street name in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane).

There's a spot in the Phoenix Park in Dublin called The Furry Glen, be hilarious if there was a Big Penis next to that one.

[avgas]

http://www.sandy-balls.co.uk/ - Yes its safe for work......NAME FAIL!
(http://www.sandy-balls.co.uk/)

[Scorp]

http://www.sandy-balls.co.uk/ - Yes its safe for work......NAME FAIL!
(http://www.sandy-balls.co.uk/)
Oh man, can you imagine a guy called Dick working there... dick@sandyballs.co.uk :laugh:

[Love my Bonnie]

bloody double posting, sorry guys

[Love my Bonnie]

I used to live in Huruhuru Place in Massey

Huruhuru = pubic hair

[Brad2010]

Gudday everyone. Just though I'd jump in on this one. Tutaenui seem most likely to be named for the place where a shark was gutted, the place being where the Tutaenui stream enters the Rangitikei river. The story has been embelished to include the shark turning into a taniwha and moving to the Whanganui river. The taniwha was named Tutaeporoporo, poroporo being a type of edible shrub, also poroporo -ahi means farewell, so the translation is a little vague. My feeling is if Maori had meant for the name to be shit, they could have used many other words, but tutae seems to mean more entrails, waste. Of course, the shark could have provided a great feast, afterwards many great shits were required!
Of course, my old man reckons the name is a reference to the weather..