Definitions for tui

tui tu·i

Spelling: [too-ee]
IPA: /ˈtu i/

Tui is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in tui (itu).

Definitions for tui

noun

  1. a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.

Origin of tui

First recorded in 1825-35, tui is from the Maori word tūī

Examples for tui

Soldiers when going to war call on tui for help, and they like to begin a battle on Tuesday.

tui was listened to attentively, as he every now and then put in a word.

"We've decided to charge the demurrage and other expenses and loss to tui Tulifau," Grief said.

Other snares were set on the miro-trees, of whose sweet berries the pigeons and tui were particularly fond.

The story is better known, however, by Anatole France's version, included in his "tui de Nacre" .

They cut three heavy bunches and were returning home, when Glu and tui began to quarrel, on the steep mountain path.

Several of these tui have been found containing instruments.

tui Tulifau is down at the boat house broaching a case of my Scotch.

Not only was tui Tulifau every inch a king, but he was every second a king.

This tui of gems is so perfectly arranged and inventoried that the absence of any one of them would at once be perceived.

Word Value for tui
Scrable

3

Words with friends

4

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