Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/bu

by Adele Marion Fielde

bú

• 舞bú10621368
• Posture-making.

thìo-bú;

dancing and tumbling.

ko̤-bú;

singing and dancing.

bú kìam;

fencing.

bú-lŏng;

play a double part.

bú-pī;

surreptitiously.

kó bú;

pantomimes.

bú ît;

perform as mummers, who act in relays of eight, at the worship of ancestors.

• 撫bú1456412
• To pacity; to sooth; manage.

bù-íang;

to rear or nurture.

tâng sòi bú-íang kàu tōa;

reared up from childhood.

uaⁿ-bú peh-sèⁿ;

to manage the people.

bú-īⁿ; bú-thâi; sûn-bú;

the governor of a province.

• 武bú1061774
• Military; warlike; martial.

bûn bú;

civil and military.

bú kuaⁿ;

bú cìang; military officers.

bú-thông;

cadets.

khì bûn, cíu bú;

discard the civil service and enter the military.

ô̤h bú;

learn military tactics.

ô̤h bú gōi;

learn to be a soldier.

bú hu;

a soldierly man.

līen bú;

practiced in warfare.

bú tîeⁿ;

an arena for military trials.

eng-hîong bô̤ eng-bú cṳ tí;

a valiant man without a field to make conquests in.

bûn bú húe;

intense heat.

bú-tẁn hieⁿ-lí;

to intimidate the villages.

bûn bú hak;

civil and military authority.

tá bú sin;

dress in military costume.

bōi bú;

a mock battle.

bú cìen;

prepared as for a fight.

kà bú;

instruct in military tactics.

bú-bú nē;

a martial air.

ĭo-bú îang-ui;

martial splendor and dignity.

bú îaⁿ;

a military camp.

• 擊bú3956413
• 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.

• 鵡bú10611967
• 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.

• 侮bú106197
• To ridicule and neglect.

bú-lŏng;

to make game of.

bú-bw̆n;

to lord it over.

• 赳bú4141562
• 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.

• 巫bû1059484
• Enchantment; magic.

lâm-bú;

a wizzard.

ńng-bû;

a witch.

• 誣bû10591497
• 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.

• 廡bû10625312
• 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.

• 蕪bû105914012
• Overgrown with weeds.

chân-hn̂g huang-bû;

neglected fields.

• 務bŭ1062198
• 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.

• 轟bū23415914
• 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.

• 噴bū8303012
• 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.

• 霧bū106217310
• 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.

• 瞀bū5881099
• Dim; bedimmed.

mâk bū-bū;

my eyes are dim.

mâk thóiⁿ tîeh pêh-bū pêh-bū;

his vision is clouded.

• 紑bū1411204
• New and lustrous like white silk.

pêh-bū, pêh-bū;

clean and bright.

pêh kàu ŏi bū;

of dazzling whiteness.