Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/khut
khut
[edit]- ẃn-khut;
- to oppress.
- ẃn-khut sí nâng;
- kill by oppression.
- sĭu khut sí;
- killed by oppression.
- sĭu m̄ khṳ̀;
- will not suffer oppression.
- khut chek;
- bend the knee.
- cṳ̆-lâi m̄ pat khut chek khîu nâng;
- has never before bent the knee to plead with anybody.
- hâm wn sĭu khut;
- endure wrong and suffer outrage.
- tăi-cĭang-hu lêng khut, lêng sin;
- a great man can either stoop or stand.
- khut cóiⁿ;
- bend the fingers.
- khut kha;
- bend the knee.
- kha chun tît, màiⁿ khut;
- stretch your leg out straight, don’t bend it.
- i hṳ́ lăi kâi lō-kèⁿ khut-khut khiok-khiok;
- the paths in there are very devious.
- mùa-khí khut kè cá cē lâi;
- demean yourself so far as to come early to-morrow.
- khut cêk mêⁿ;
- sat in a crouching position all night.
- tŏ̤ cûn tèng khut cêk jît;
- was cramped up in the boat all day.
- cĭam chíaⁿ khut sin tŏ̤ i kò̤;
- temporarily submit to suffer in his employ.
- nā cí-kò̤ cĭam khut cē;
- stay cramped up here temporarily.
- m̄-hó̤ khut suah phêng jîn;
- do not wrongfully kill an innocent man.
- cía khah khut tîeh lṳ́;
- this is putting too much upon you.
- i m̄ khut nâng;
- he wrongs nobody.
- cí câng hue khut cò̤ cêk ciah cío;
- bend this shrub into tho shape of a bird.
- cí câng chīu khut cò̤ cêk ciah chĭeⁿ;
- force this tree into the likeness of an elephant.
- líu cêk kâi khut;
- dig a pit.
- lô̤h khṳ̀ khut tói sói-êk;
- go down into a pool to bathe.
- khṳ̀ khut-tèng lîah hṳ̂;
- go to the hollows among the rocks to catch fish.
- hṳ́-kò̤ sĭ sí uâng khut;
- that is a beastly hole.
- múaⁿ-tī-kò̤ kâi kau-khut lóng-cóng cúi múaⁿ-múaⁿ;
- the ditches everywhere are full of water.
- cí cho̤h ûeh-chṳ́ sĭ to̤ khut-tèng lîah kâi;
- these bull-heads were caught in a pool.
- káu jīo kàu khût thâu-lō, i cū àiⁿ hûe-tńg lâi kă;
- a dog driven to bay will turn around and bite.
- i cē kàu lō-mn̂g-khût cū mih sṳ̄ to khṳ̀ cò̤;
- when driven to desperation he will do any sort of thing.
- i hìeⁿ sî kâi lō khût căi;
- his way was then very much hedged in.
- i cí nŏ kâi gûeh cn̂g kâi khût lō, chŵn bô̤ cîⁿ-mn̂g hó̤ thàng;
- he has not known what to do these past two months, having no chance whatever to earn anything.