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bairawerawe

Bingham

bairæ/weræwe

a. wont to carry off thievishly.

Sabatier

bairawerawe

n. idem. swindler, pick pocket, kleptomaniac.

Words that link here

babairawerawe frequentative of bairawerawe: wont to carry off theivishly.
bairawata heavy handed, having hands full of ill-gotten goods, thief, grabber.
baurawata to hold on to wrongfully, to unjustly take possession of.
kabairawerawe

Sources

Bingham: Hiram Bingham, A Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1908, 1953). American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Sabatier: Ernest Sabatier, M.S.C., Dictionnaire Gilbertin-Français (1954), translated by Sr. M. Oliva as Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1971). South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau.

From A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary, compiled by Stephen Trussel and Gordon W. Groves (University of Hawaiʻi, 1978), revised and edited by Stephen Trussel (2003), as published on trussel.com. Original page (archived).

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Content from A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary, compiled by Stephen Trussel and Gordon W. Groves (University of Hawaiʻi, 1978), revised and edited by Stephen Trussel (2003), as published on trussel.com. Each entry credits the dictionaries it combines.