Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chok

by Adele Marion Fielde

chok

• 觸chok9914813
• To excite; to stir up; to offend.

chok tîeh i kâi nō̤;

excited his wrath.

chok tîeh i seⁿ khì;

made him angry.

chok mâk kiaⁿ sim;

arouse the attention in such a way as to excite fear.

chok-khí i kâi sĭeⁿ-thâu;

arouse his attention.

chok-kéng seⁿ-chêng;

to irritate.

chok hŭam;

to sin willfully.

chok tîeh cĭu khì;

if you touch upon that he becomes angry.

• 戮chok846214
• A stamp; a die; a seal.

khap chok;

affix a stamp.

kip cêk kâi chok pun i;

gave him something to use as a stamp.

tŏ̤ kuaⁿ kò̤ nía kâi chok;

received a stamp at the magistrate's office.

tîaⁿ ā-sĭ bô̤ khap chok, kuaⁿ m̄ khéng siu;

the magistrate will not receive a paper which has no stamp upon it

• 捉chok82647
• To gripe; to seize.

chok lîah;

to gripe firmly.

ûah chok;

caught alive.

• 促chok101597
• To constrain; to urge.

kek chok;

to press urgently.

pek chok;

to hurry.

kek-kek chok-chok;

much straightened.

kek-kek chok-chok to cò̤ bô̤ hó̤ mûeh;

a fine piece of work cannot be done in haste.

sî-hāu khah pek-chok;

the time is too short.

màiⁿ khah tó̤-chok cĭu hó̤;

if not too hurried, it may be done.

• 蹙chok101415711
• To contract the brows.

sang bâi cò̤-nî chok-chok?

Why do you frown so?

hẃn-ló̤ kàu sang bâi chok cò̤ cêk ē;

so sad that his eyebrows were drawn together.

bâi-thâu cē chok, sim lăi cĭu phah tīaⁿ cú-ì;

with one contraction of the eyebrows, his mind is fully made up.