What does kau kau mean in hawaiian?

Answer 1

Kaukau is Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin) for "to eat", as in Eh, da food ready. Go kaukau. "Yo, the food is ready. Go eat." Kaukau originates from the Hawaiian word kau which means "to put". Kaukau refers to what is "put" on the table (i.e., food).

Words related to kaukau:

Pākaukau "table"

"Tattoo" also comes from the Hawaiian word for "to write", kākau/tātau. Both of these words are reduplicative forms of the verb kau.

Answer 2

Aloha:

1. vt. To place, put, hang, suspend, affix, gird on; to set, settle, perch, alight, rest, pose; to enact, impose, or pass, as a law; to levy, as a tax; to ride on or mount, as on a horse or in a car; to board, mount, get in or on; to rise up, appear, as the moon; to place in sacrifice, as a pig; to come to rest, as the setting sun; to arrive, come to pass; to hang up, as a telephone receiver.

2. n. Period of time, lifetime; any season, especially summer; session of a legislature

3. nvt. A sacred chant

4. n. Wooden handle