Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/tok
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- màiⁿ tok tîeh chíu;
- do not chop your hand.
- kĭen kàu tok khih to̤;
- it is so hard as to break a piece out of the knife when chopping it.
- cóng-tok;
- governor-general.
- cí kâi thî-tok sĭ lêk lō kâi a sĭ cúi-su kâi?
- Is this commander one who directs the military or the naval operations of the province?
- thî-tok hâk-cèng;
- the provincial director of examinations.
- ŵt-hái-kwn kàm-tok;
- the collector of customs at Canton.
- hô̤-tok sĭ kẃn-lí n̂g-hô̤ kâi cóng-tok;
- the River commissioner is one who attends to all matters connected with the navigation of the Yellow River.
- châu-ūn cóng-tok;
- the Commissioner in charge of the Grand Canal.
- tok piaⁿ khṳ̀ kio i cìen;
- lead the troops out to bat tle with him.
- ka-kī chut lâi tok tīn;
- himself came out to head the troops.
- tī-tîang tó̤ tok kang?
- Who superintends the work?
- i kà-tok khṳ̀ ngîam căi;
- he gave the strictest instruction concerning it.
- tok-ceh kíaⁿ-tĭ hùe màiⁿ thèng cò̤;
- admonish the children not to act carelessly.
- ka-kī tok phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;
- himself looks after the goods.
- phài nâng tó̤ tok-lí;
- depute some one to attend to it.
- i ío tok-sît;
- he is the more reliable.
- i phêng-sù tok sìn cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄;
- he formerly had implicit confidence in that sort of thing.
- kàu pēⁿ tok kâi sî-hāu cū khṳ̀ hàm i a-hiaⁿ lâi;
- when his ailment became serious, they went and called his brother.
- i kâi pēⁿ sĭ ngûi-tok;
- his disease is eminently dangerous.
- To chop fine;
- to mince; to hash with a chopping knife; to cut up fine by chopping with two knives.
- tok chùi cē;
- hash it finer.
- tok cò̤ nêk-chò̤;
- chop it up into hash.
- i khṳt cèng nâng tok cò̤ nêk-cìeⁿ;
- he was hacked into mince-meat by the populace.
- tok nêk îⁿ;
- meat balls.
- tok-nêk-chò̤;
- hash.
- cêk ē to̤ tok lô̤h khṳ̀ cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;
- chopped in two by one stroke of the knife.
- tok bé-thâu;
- make a jetty.
- tok toi;
- make a dike.
- tok tîo cîeh lî;
- to build a stone wall.
- sin tok kâi phàu-thâi;
- the newly made fort.
- To work in gems;
- to cut precious stones.
- khuaⁿ nē tio khuaⁿ nē tok;
- slowly cut and polish.
- gêk put tok cū put sêng khì;
- an unwrought gem is of no use.
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- Solitary, alone, isolated, by one's self; widowed or childless; left alone; one's own consciousness or what is only felt by himself; one of; only; yet.
- nî lău, bô̤ kíaⁿ, kìe-cò̤ tôk;
- when old and child-less one is said to be lone.
- tôk mâk;
- one eyed.
- tôk kha;
- one legged.
- tôk kha, tôk chíu, cò̤ m̄ lâi;
- cannot do it single handed.
- tôk kâi phīⁿ khang;
- loss of the dividing cartilage in the nose.
- tôk ciah hĭⁿ;
- has only one ear.
- kùa tôk ciah hĭⁿ-kau;
- wears a single earring.
- tôk-cṳ̆ cêk nâng;
- all by himself.
- tôk cŏ̤, bô̤ lîo;
- sit alone and without companions.
- tôk lâk, lâng thî;
- cannot brace it up with only the strength of one individual.
- tôk ki tṳ̄ cò̤-nî cîah?
- How can one eat with a single chopstick?
- toaⁿ tôk sĭ i tīaⁿ;
- it is no one but him.
- tôk-tôk sĭ úa cū àiⁿ;
- I am the only one who wants it.
- chûn tôk cío;
- my lone self.
- phah tôk chèng;
- fire a single gun.
- i pang tn̂g, tôk sĭen, sĭ tăi kùi keh;
- he has square intestines and a single kidney and is a man of extraordinary powers.
- cŏ̤ tôk khàng;
- sit alone on the divan.
- tôk-kak;
- solitary, single.
- kúaⁿ-tôk;
- evict; drive out.
- tôk chut gūa hng;
- ejected and driven away.
- íⁿ-keng pun úa tôk tīo khṳ̀;
- has already been ejected by me.
- i a-pĕ cêng pín-tôk kùe kâi;
- one whom his father has disinherited and turned out of doors.
- teng-teng tôk-tôk;
- to gad about.
- cí kâi tī-hng ío cíe teng-tôk;
- there is but little running to and fro in social intercourse here abouts.
- cí pńg sĭ jîp tôk phŏ;
- this is the memorandum of what is daily brought in and sent out; the day book of a merchant.
- i sĭ toaⁿ-toaⁿ bōi jît-tôk a sī ŭ bōi thò̤-hùe?
- Does he sell what he daily buys or does he take in and sell on commission?
- cì tōa tôk-kî;
- offer sacrifice to the great standard.
- îaⁿ sang-káng cū îaⁿ kŭa ki tōa tôk-kî chut lâi;
- if people go out in procession with the gods during autumn, they carry out the great banners.
- úa thóiⁿ i kâi sìang-măuⁿ ngâk-tôk hun mêng, lóng-cóng cìe sìeⁿ;
- I see that the heights and hollows of the face are plainly distinguished and all according to the original.
- i kâi mīn-tîeⁿ ngó-ngâk sì-tôk lóng-cóng bô̤ kô̤ hó̤ hîam;
- his features are all faultless.
- pĭen-tôk;
- venereal ulcers.
- hṳ̂-kháu pĭen-tôk;
- gaping venereal ulcers.
- i cìeⁿ-seⁿ sǹg sĭ siet-tôk sîn-mêng;
- doing thus, he may bo considered as having blasphemed the gods.
- kuaⁿ phoi tàⁿ "bô̤ îong tôk chíaⁿ";
- the magistrate's decision was this "No appeals which are an abuse of privilege will be allowed".