tauhou

English

Alternative forms

• tahou

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

tauhou (plural tauhous)

1. (New Zealand) A bird, the silvereye.
   • 1973, Walter Imber, Kenneth Brailey Cumberland, R B Rains, New Zealand: Pacific land down under:

     Also in this group is the tauhou or silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) and two honey-eaters […]

   • 1997, Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English:

     There was one tauhou preternaturally wary and, somehow, knowing […]

Maori

Noun

tauhou

1. silvereye; wax-eye, waxeye.