Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/khiong
khíong
[edit]- khíong-ùi i bô̤ lâi;
- anxious lest he fail to come.
- i khíong-phàⁿ úa àiⁿ phah i;
- he fears I am going to give him a whipping.
- i cò̤ sṳ̄ to sĭ hûang-hûang khíong-khíong, kiaⁿ-ùi cò̤ tāⁿ;
- she does things in a flurry, fearful that she will do them wrongly.
- i thiaⁿ tîeh sim lăi cū kiaⁿ-khíong;
- when he heard it he was frightened.
- thoíⁿ tîeh i cū khíong-kŭ;
- when he saw it he was afraid.
- i sĭ phìn-khîong kâi nâng;
- he is a very poor man.
- i tŏ̤ khîong-khó kâi sî-hāu to bô̤ nâng pat i;
- when he was needy and suffering no one knew him.
- i cí-hûe khîong kêk;
- he is now in the utmost poverty.
- khî bī bô̤ khîong;
- its flavor is perpetual.
- bô̤ khîong-cĭn;
- inexhaustible.
- khîong kìu tŏ̤-lí;
- an exhaustive exposition of the doctrine.
- lṳ́ tîeh khîong thóiⁿ i kâi lí sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ a m̄ sĭ;
- you must make a thorough examination whether its principle is thus.
- i tŏ̤ khîong-thû kâi sî-hāu, i cêng kìu-cì i;
- when he was in extremity, he rescued him.
- cí kâi tŏ̤-lí cū khîong m̄ chut;
- cannot search to the botton of this principle.
- khîong-khùn;
- utterly exhausted.
- suaⁿ khîong, cúi cĭn, gî bô̤ lō;
- headed off on all sides, and with no path open anywhere.
- khîong hieⁿ phiah jíang kâi tī-hng;
- the remotest village and most unfrequented place.
- khîong khò, môk tui;
- do not follow a thief to bay.
- jît cē àm hâng-khîong cū ki-ki-kìe;
- at dusk, the crickets chirp.