wash-board.
ìⁿ-bí thoah cheng-khih;
rub all the husks off the barley by rubbing it on a rough surface. 淅 thoah 803 85 8 To wash or scour rice. cang thoah bí kâi cúi khṳ̀ sói;
wash it in the water in which rice has been scoured.
thoah bí tîeh thoah thíam cē;
in washing the rice you must stir it about more violently. thoi 釵 thoi 11 167 3 A hair-pin, broad and curved so that it will lie across the occiput; those who wear hair-pins, females. kim thoi;
gold hair-pins.
hŏng thoi;
a hair-pin with a phenix on it.
kim-thoi cîeh hôk; thoi-hôk;
a kind of medicine, the stem of an orchid, whose dried stalks are likened to hair-pins, and look like liquorice roots. 體 thói 884 188 13 The body, the whole person; a solid; a class; a body of officers; the important; essentials; becoming; respectable; influential; to receive courteously. sin-thói;
the human body; bodily.
chut sin lò thói;
chiah sin lò thói; stark naked.
cìeⁿ-seⁿ m̄ hah thói-sek;
that is not in good taste.
cò̤ mih sṳ̄ to tîeh tit thói;
all things must be done decently and in order; in everything, suitable respect must be paid to persons.
thói-thiap;
to accommodate; to sympathize with; to put one's self in another's place.
i mih sṳ̄ to thói-thiap nâng;
he is very accommodating in everything.
thói-thóng;
decorum; what is befititng.
chŵn bô̤ kâi thói-thóng;
has no sense of propriety.
úa thóiⁿ i bô̤ kâi sin-seⁿ thói;
he does not appear to me to have the aspect of a teacher. 代 thòi 845 8 3 Instead, for, in place of; to alter; to supersede; to substitute. nŏ̤ nâng sie táu thòi;
the two spell each other at it.
ŭ sî úa li thòi lú, ŭ sî lṳ́ li thò̤i úa;
sometimes you take my place, and sometimes I take yours.
lṳ́ thòi i cò̤;
you do it in his stead.
cang cí kâi thòi hṳ́ kâi lâi chō̤;
take this to put it in instead of that.
kò cêk kâi thòi-sin;
hire a substitute.
cí kâi sĭ i kâi thòi-sin;
this is his substitute.
i sĭ thòi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄;
he is acting in another's place.
kio pât nâng thòi phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;
buying and selling goods for another person.
thó̤ khṳ̀ thò̤i nâng sí;
ask the privilege of dying in another's stead.
cí kâi kuaⁿ sĭ thòi ĺi kâi;
this magistrate is acting in place of another.
i tàⁿ i cí nŏ̤ mêⁿ thiaⁿ-kìⁿ kúi tó̤ hàm thòi;
he says he has heard a bodiless spirit calling him these last two nights to commit suicide.
thóiⁿ 看 thóiⁿ 316 109 4 To look at; to see; to regard carefully; aspect. chin mâk thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;
see with one's own eyes.
lṳ́ thóiⁿ-kìⁿ mē?
Do you see it?
khṳt úa thóiⁿ;
let me see it.
úa li thóiⁿ-m̄-kìⁿ;
I do not see it.
hó̤ thóiⁿ căi;
presenting an admirable appearance.
thóiⁿ m̄ cĭeⁿ mâk;
the sight is repulsive.
lṳ́ thóiⁿ tîeh hó̤ a m̄-hó̤?
Do you consider it well to do so or not?
thóiⁿ kha thóiⁿ chíu;
to stare at one.
khṳt úa thóiⁿ phùa lío;
I have seen through it; the trick of it has been found out by me.
thóiⁿ m̄ chit;
cannot perceive it.
thóiⁿ tîeh m̄ pat tò̤ jīn;
do not recognize it.
i cheⁿ-mêⁿ, mâk-ciu thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;
he is blind, and does not see.
híen khui lâi thóiⁿ;
turn over the leaves and see.
thóiⁿ cṳ;
to read silently.
thóiⁿ sìeⁿ kâi nâng;
a physiognomist.
i jī ke tó̤ sie thóiⁿ;
the two are looking at each other.
i cē thóiⁿ tŏ̤ i mâk cū tŏ̤ i chíu;
as soon as he takes a fancy to a thing he has it.
i cē thóiⁿ tŏ̤ i mâk cū tŏ̤ i tó;
as soon as it comes within the range of his eye, he takes it into his mind.
thóiⁿ khin;
look upon with contempt.
thóiⁿ tăng; thóiⁿ tŏng;
regard with respect.
cía sĭ cêk īeⁿ thóiⁿ huap;
this is his way of looking at things.
thóiⁿ mn̂g;
watch the house.
i thóiⁿ i, ithóiⁿ i;
looking at each other.
thóiⁿ kàu kông;
look till dazed.
thóiⁿ-síu sîaⁿ mn̂g;
guard the city gates.
m̄ pat thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;
never saw.
lṳ́ phīⁿ thóiⁿ hó̤ a m̄-hó̤;
you examine it by smelling it and see whether it is good.
cîah thóiⁿ hó̤ mē;
taste some and see if it is good.
chì thóiⁿ jîeh hó̤;
try it and see how good it is.
mông thòiⁿ jîeh kût;
feel and see how smooth it is.
thóiⁿ m̄ hīn;
do not see clearly. thoih 藉 thoih 973 140 14 To bolster up. thoih kàu nĕ ńng-ńng;
bolster it up very carefully.
hṳ́ ĕ tîeh ŭ mûeh thoih, cìaⁿ bŏi tiaⁿ-cŭang tīo;
there must be something soft put under it, then it will not be broken by a thump.
hṳ́ ĕ thoih kò̤ tê-tĭen sĭ chiu-kue-phûe;
the mat which is under the tea-pot is a vegetable sponge. 嘽 thôih 854 30 12 To pant, as horses do. hía bé kiaⁿ kàu thôih;
the horse pants from fright. 奄 thôih 1088 37 5 To gasp, as if in death. thóiⁿ-kìⁿ thôih-a-thôih, hŵn-lío cîah ke ku-ā nî;
looked as if gasping his last breath and yet lived for many more years.
khùn kàu tó̤ thôih;
so nearly exhausted that 