Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/hoih

by Adele Marion Fielde

hoih

• 狹hoih186947
• Narrow; contracted; petty.

i kâi tó hoih-hoih;

he is very narrow minded.

tang tó tîeh cò̤ tōa cē màiⁿ cò̤ khah hoih;

make the middle of it rather capacious, do not make it too contracted.

• 伺hôih83795
• To espy; to reconnoiter.

khṳt i hôih tîeh;

espied by him.

i nŏ̤ nâng tó̤ tă-hôih;

the two are acting as spies.

i kúi nâng lâi tó̤ hôih, lṳ́ tîeh cai-hûang i;

they have come to reconnoitre and you must beware of them.

màiⁿ khṳt i hôih-kìⁿ;

do not let her get a peep at it when she is speering around.