takoko

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.

Bingham

tákoko

va. puffed, filled up, choked.

takoko

from. ko:

syn. ribariba:

a. tight. tight, close together, packed, compressed, heaped together (as fish in net), swollen tight, distended.

ex. tibu takoko: ready to burst.

vc. katakokoa: to squeeze tight enough to suffocate,... burst.