Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/go

by Adele Marion Fielde

gô

• 鮔gô2761956
• The porpoise or river pig.

pêh-gô; pêh-gô hṳ̂;

porpoises.

thóiⁿ-kìⁿ búe pêh-gô tó̤ pha-lìn-táu;

saw a porpoise frisking about.

• 誤gō10631497
• To thwart; to hinder by carelessness or by mistake.

gō tîeh sṳ̄;

to cause a thing to miscarry.

gō hāi hó̤ nâng;

unwittingly injure the good.

cêk gō kha-îong cài gō;

one false step leads to others.

tam-gō;

to dawdle, and thus cause an enterprise to fail.

sit gō;

to fail in doing.

gō lío sî-kheh;

to miss the time set.

gō tăi sṳ̄;

cause important business to fall through.

gō sĭeⁿ;

mistake in reasoning.

gō jīn;

confess the wrong thing.

chò̤ gō;

err by mistake.

lîm-sî tẁn-tẁn bŏi gō;

shall certainly not fail of being there at the exact time.

lîm-sî tam-gō;

delay at the critical moment.

gō ēng chong-mêng;

misused his knowledge.

kù-ì tam-gō;

purposely thwart by delay.

gō kói;

wrongly explain.

gō thŵn;

report erroneously.