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Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect.
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  • To attack with weapons; to charge upon.
i khîa ki thûi cū bú khṳ̀;
he took a club and charged upon them.
i khṳt i bú pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;
they were knocked down by his onset.
bú sí;
to set upon and kill.
  • 10611967
  • A parrot that can talk.
eng-bú;
a parrot.
pêh eng-bú;
a cockatoo.
eng-bú ŏi tàⁿ ūe, hŵn sǹg sĭ cío;
though parrots can talk they are still reckoned among birds.
  • 106197
  • To ridicule and neglect.
bú-lŏng;
to make game of.
bú-bw̆n;
to lord it over.
  • 4141562
  • To carry the head high; high and mighty.
thóin tîeh bú-bú;
appears very gallant.
siu-sîp kàu nĕ bú-bú;
apparelled in such a way as to appear very menacing.
  • 1059484
  • Enchantment; magic.
lâm-bú;
a wizzard.
ńng-bû;
a witch.
  • 10591497
  • To affirm what is false, with malicious intentions; to inculpate falsely; to invent a statement; to calumniate.
bû-lūa nâng;
to implicate unjustly.
bû hām;
to involve so as to injure.
bû sì, hok mîn;
delude the people.
bû-kò̤ àiⁿ hẃn cŏ̤, kù-chṳ́ m̄ hó̤ bû-kò̤ nâng;
a lying charge brings down its punishment on the accuser, therefore make no lying charges.
m̄ hó̤ bû lîang ûi tău, m̄ hó̤ bû lîang ûi chiang;
do not falsely accuse the upright of theft and the pure of lewdness.
pĭ nâng bû kâi;
subjected to a false accusation.
  • 10625312
  • A porch or vestibule.
lîang bû;
a summer portico.
tâng bû, sâi bû;
east and west piazzas.
lăi bû, gūa bû;
inner and outer galleries.
  • 105914012
  • Overgrown with weeds.
chân-hn̂g huang-bû;
neglected fields.
  • 1062198
  • To bend the mind to a subject; to strive after; concerns; business; an intensive particle; certainly.
sṳ̄-bŭ;
business.
kong bŭ;
public affairs.
ke bŭ;
domestic concerns.
cwn bŭ thâk cṳ;
devoted to study.
cò̤ sṳ̄ tîeh bŭ pún;
in the transaction of business there must be undivided attention.
lông bŭ;
agricultural affairs.
gūa bŭ;
extraneous sources of profit.
bŭ gūa;
attend to outside concerns.
bŭ-pit tîeh cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
it is necessarily so.
bŭ-su tîeh nā kò̤;
must certainly stay.
bŭ-pit;
indispensable.
sṳ̄-bŭ cōi;
has many functions; has much to attend to.
  • 23415914
  • To blurt forth; to fire upon; to destroy as a cannon does.
i kâi chù khṳt tōa phàu bū tó̤ khṳ̀;
his house was blown down by the cannon.
bū sí kuí câp nâng;
killed several tens of persons by the blast.
bū tîm i kâi cûn;
sunk their ship by firing upon it.
cía phàu khah sòi ki, bū i bô̤ bī;
this cannon is too small, firing it has no effect.
bū kàu i kâi îaⁿ chap-chap-chùi;
fired upon their intrenchment and blew it to pieces.
  • 8303012
  • To blow out of the mouth in the form of vapor; to spurt out of the mouth.
bū cúi lío cìaⁿ hó̤ sàṳ tò̤;
spurt water out of the mouth to settle the dust, and then you may sweep the floor.
cîah cúi-hun bū tâm tò̤;
those who smoke strong tobacco spit all over the floor.
  • 106217310
  • Mist; vapor in the air.
hûn-bū;
misty.
hwt bū;
become misty.
mông-bū mông-bū;
very foggy.
thiⁿ bū-bū, àiⁿ lô̤h hŏ;
the sky is cloudy, it is going to rain.
in-bū;
steam.
suaⁿ khṳt bū câh tîeh;
the view of the land is cut off by the vapor.
pìn koiⁿ bū-bū, lî hn̆g cĭu thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;
is full of mist, so that you cannot see far.
  • 5881099
  • Dim; bedimmed.
mâk bū-bū;
my eyes are dim.
mâk thóiⁿ tîeh pêh-bū pêh-bū;
his vision is clouded.
  • 1411204
  • New and lustrous like white silk.
pêh-bū, pêh-bū;
clean and bright.
pêh kàu ŏi bū;
of dazzling whiteness.

bua

  • bûa60211211
  • To grind; to polish; to over bear; to reduce to powder.
bûa cîeh;
a grind stone.
bûa to̤ cîeh;
a whet stone.
bûa lāi-lāi;
sharpen by grinding.
bûa pêh-pêh;
scour it white.
bûa pêⁿ-pêⁿ;
grind it till it is even.
bûa ciam-ciam;
grind it off to a point.
bûa pô̤h-pô̤h;
grind it down thin.
bûa to̤;
to grind a knife.
bûa chèng;
polish a gun.
bûa kìaⁿ;
polish a mirror.
bûa kàu nĕ kim-kim;
polish to a great brilliancy.
ēng îeh