A uniquely Kiwi, Māori-twisted way of saying fucking, used to add extra spice, attitude, or emphasis to whatever someone is ranting about. Perfect for when regular swearing just doesn’t quite capture the full level of exasperation, disbelief or general cooked-ness of a situation in Aotearoa.
“Bro, the cops were moving whākn' slow today.”
“That hui was whākn' pointless.”
“Luxon’s speech was whākn' something, I’ll tell you that.”
“That hui was whākn' pointless.”
“Luxon’s speech was whākn' something, I’ll tell you that.”
by Matua Kahurangi December 5, 2025
Get the Whākn' mug.A Māori-twisted version of fucked, used when something is properly ruined, broken, cooked, beyond saving, or just a total write-off. The word carries the same hopelessness and dramatic flair as the original, but with a distinctly Kiwi edge that makes the disaster sound almost poetic.
“My ute failed its WOF again. It’s absolutely whākt'.”
“Bro, the Greens are whākt' if they keep playing politics like that.”
“I opened the fridge and the milk was whākt'. Straight in the bin.”
“Bro, the Greens are whākt' if they keep playing politics like that.”
“I opened the fridge and the milk was whākt'. Straight in the bin.”
by Matua Kahurangi December 5, 2025
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Get the Wee Whoa mug.He listened respectfully at first, filled with compassion, tears forming in his eyes as she narrated having been abandoned as an infant, left in a dumpster high in the Sierra-Nevadas, rescued by dumpster-diving circus riders who put her, untethered, on the back of a jumping stallion every night till she was sixteen. Years later, escaping one night off the coast of San Diego she waded into the ocean, hoping to end it all, only to be netted by Tijuana shrimp fishermen who forced her to peel shrimp for years in a rickety boat, the best life she's ever known, before falling overboard in a hurricane and washing ashore in San Francisco at the precise moment an 7.4 earthquake hit. How she got to the Greyhound station in Sparks she was still unclear, and could he spare a hundred bucks to help her find her rightful family, whom, she believed, might at this moment be remorsefully searching for her on the outskirts of Death Valley. By now dry-eyed and stone-hearted, he reached into his wallet for a five, which he slipped into the outer pocket of her spangled handbag and, not looking back, hopped quickly onto his bus while she prattled on with her Tale of Whoa!
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