Noun: Maori word for George.

Slang derogatory term used to describe the indigenous Maori of New Zealand. It implies such connotations as: scruffy, poor, thief, coloured.
Noun: Hori(George), I'd like you to meet Hone(John); Hone, meet Hori.

Slang:The term came into affect in the 1900s when a white majority wanted to label something they deemed to be inferior. Similar to "nigger and abo". It finally found it's way into the Oxford English Dictionary in the late Twentieth
Century.
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The New Zealand equivalent of very messy. Some hori areas include south Auckland, Maraenui, and Gisborne.
"Hahaha look at that chick with those hori shorts on"
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Slang derogatory term used to describe the indigenous Maori of New Zealand. It implies such connotations as: scruffy, poor, thief, coloured.

The term came into affect in the 1900s when a white racist majority wanted to label something they deemed to be inferior. Similar to "nigger and abo"
We are not "Horis" we are the native peoples of New Zealand, treat us with respect, for we were here before you. We let you into our country and were great hosts to you.

Would a "hori" have been so nice? It seem that "Pakeha" are the Horis, for you stole our land, stole our language, and robbed us of our culture.
by Miss Sham April 29, 2005
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Hori is used to describe a lazy maori of nz
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noun:Maori translation of George
sl:Derogatory term for New Zealand Maori.(As opposed to Cook Is Maori)
Hone(John), I'd like you to meet Hori(George): Hori, meet Hone.
Hey you stinking hori, give my Jandels back!
by Drew aka:The Kestrel. June 11, 2005
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Hori is Maori for George, so mainly New Zealand people get named Hori aka George
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