Hori is slang word from nz typically to describe people ghetto in a cringe sort of way. It’s proper meaning just means dirty in the Māori language.
by Thecuzfrom42 November 14, 2020
The New Zealand equivalent to "ghetto". These folks spend their time partying, robbing their local dairy and you'll usually catch a glimpse of them on police ten 7. Kia Ora whanuk.
by shana bae August 20, 2018
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.
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.
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.
by Drew aka:The Kestrel. June 12, 2005
The New Zealand equivalent of very messy. Some hori areas include south Auckland, Maraenui, and Gisborne.
by Mememaster61817 January 27, 2017
by Joe munger September 22, 2022
noun:Maori translation of George
sl:Derogatory term for New Zealand Maori.(As opposed to Cook Is Maori)
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!
Hey you stinking hori, give my Jandels back!
by Drew aka:The Kestrel. June 11, 2005
Hi, Hori nice to see you
by Maorigirl October 12, 2018