Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/cam

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  • A needle; a pin; a lancet; to puncture.
chng cam;
thread a needle.
bûa cam;
polish a needle.
cò̤ cam;
make needles.
tōa cam, jī cam, saⁿ cam, cam kíaⁿ;
large, medium sized, fine, and very fine needles.
tōa kong cam;
a darning needle.
hue cam;
an embroidery needle.
cam khang, cam búe;
the eye and the point of a needle.
cam phīⁿ;
the end of a needle opposite the point.
cam kha khah hi;
the stitches are too long.
tîeh bâk cam cē;
you must sew it more finely.
cí kâi hŭ-jîn hó̤ cam-cí;
this woman is a good sewer.
hâng-sú-cam;
a thermometer.
huang-hŏ-cam;
a barometer.
sî-ceng cam;
the hands of a clock.
pang-cam; thng-sî cam;
the pin used to fasten the coiffure.
jû cŏ̤ cam-ciⁿ;
as if sitting on needles.
ēng cam lâi thie tīo i kâi hueh;
get a lancet and bleed him.
cam huap;
the rules for acupuncture.
cêk cam kìⁿ hueh;
one puncture brought the blood.
cam kù;
to probe.
cam-tùi;
point to point.
cam-tùi móng nâng tàⁿ;
it refers to what a certain person said.
thih póiⁿ bûa cîaⁿ sìu-hue cam;
an iron ferule may be ground down into an embroidery needle.
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  • To stick in the hair, or hat.
cam hue;
to put flowers in the hair.
cam ēng;
to put a tassel into a cap.
hue cam, hue lúi;
sprays and flowers, used as head ornaments.
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  • To sever; to sunder; to chop off; to cut.
cám châ;
to cut wood.
cám khui;
to sunder.
cám tīo;
chop it off.
cám thâu;
to behead.
cám chīu lîah cío;
to cut down the tree in order to catch the bird.
cám cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;
cut it in two.
ēng pó-thâu cìaⁿ hó̤ cám;
take an axe and then you can chop it off.
cám cháu tṳ̂ kṳn;
to cut down the weeds and extirpate their roots; to wholly exterminate; to cut off all one's posterity.
cám teng côih thih;
to cut off a nail.
cám síu sī cèng;
to decapitate as a warning to others; to make an oxample of.
kìe cám cŭe;
a capital crime.
kam cám kuaⁿ;
a sheriff.
cám, ká, kun, lîu, thû, sĭ ngŏ īeⁿ hêng huap;
beheading, hanging, sending into the army, temporary banishment, and perpetual banishment, are the five methods of punishment.
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  • To slander or vilify.
càm-cǹg;
to defame.
i hàuⁿ càm-cǹg nâng;
he is addicted to slandering people.
càm-cǹg kùe lâi, càm-cǹg kùe khṳ̀;
backbiting each the other.
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  • A fine chisel; a graving tool; to chisel out; to engrave.
căm kíaⁿ;
a graving tool.
căm hue;
to grave flowers.
căm khṳ̀ hue-cháu ngía căi;
the carving was beautifully done.
căm lâi hue-jī m̄ hīn;
the letters are are not plainly cut.
tîeh căm chim cē;
they must be cut deeper.
khah tōiⁿ, căm m̄ lô̤h;
the stuff is too hard, it cannot be chiseled out.
ngṳ̂n căm;
chasing on silver.
căm hue kâi nâng;
the graver.
màiⁿ căm khih khṳ̀;
do not break it in chiseling it.
cîeh căm;
a stone-cutter's chisel.
cía khang tîeh căm khuah cē, cìaⁿ tàu tit lô̤h;
this hole must be cut larger, so the plug will go in.
căm chùi cē;
cut it more delicately.
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  • A stage of a journey.
îah căm;
the distance between post houses.
cêk căm lō;
one stage of a journey.
tŏ̤ cí-kò̤ kàu hṳ́-kò̤ ŭ kúi căm lō̤?
How many stages from here there?
lō-căm àiⁿ cò̤-nî pheⁿ-phah?
What route have you decided upon?
thâu căm kàu tī-kò̤?
What is the first stopping place?
jī căm kàu hṳ́-kò̤;
that will be the second stopping place on the route.