Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kuai
kuai
- i kâi nâng kuai-khá căi;
- he is very wily.
- sòi-sòi cū kuai-kuai khá-khá;
- though very young he is very artful.
- cí kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khah kuai-ciang;
- this child is too intractable.
- úa thóiⁿ-tîeh khah kuai;
- he appears to me to be too cross grained.
- i pí pât nâng lêng-ūaⁿ kuai;
- he is more difficult to get along with than other people.
- sĭm sĭ kuai-khío;
- is very cunning.
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- A species of sunfish, of which it is said that “it can inflate its belly and float; it has no gills or gall-bladder, and when it hits against any- thing it makes a noise.”
- kuai hṳ̂;
- the sunfish.
- kuai pó;
- dried sunfish.
- kúai-cĭang;
- a cane.
- phah sang kúai;
- go on crutches.
- kṳ̂ kúai-cĭang;
- leans on a crutch.
- kúai-thûi;
- a staff.
- chut jîp tîeh kṳ̂ kúai-thûi;
- wherever she goes has to lean on a staff.
- kúai-kha;
- lame of leg.
- kúai-kha kúai chíu;
- crippled in both feet and hands.
- kîaⁿ khṳ̀ kúai-a-kúai;
- walks very lamely; limps as he goes.
- kúai-kha hùe, cheⁿ-mêⁿ hùe;
- the halt and the blind.
- kúai-phìen nâng;
- to swindle people.
- kúai-tô̤ nâng kâi cṳ-nîe;
- seduce other men's wives.
- a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khṳt i kúai-phìen khù bōi;
- children were decoyed away and sold by him.
- kang kúai tău tô̤ kâi cŭe-hŭam;
- the crime of kidnapping.
- kúai bōi tṳ-kíaⁿ;
- entrap and sell coolies.
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- To blame; to find fault with; to deem strange; strange; marvellous; portentous; supernatural.
- kùai-ĭ kâi sṳ̄;
- a very surprising thing.
- sĭm sĭ khî-kùai;
- it is exceedingly queer.
- i kâi nâng īeⁿ seⁿ lâi khî-khî kùai-kùai;
- he has a very weird appearance.
- kùai mûeh;
- an apparition; a monster.
- ìo-ciaⁿ, kúi-kùai;
- elves and spooks.
- kú nî cū sêng cò̤ ciaⁿ-kùai;
- after a lapse of many years, becomes a goblin.
- i cò̤-nî tin-tò̤ lâi kùai lṳ́?
- Why does he turn about and blame you?
- lṳ́ màiⁿ kùai;
- do not deem it surprising.
- úa bô̤ kùai lṳ́;
- I do not find fault with you therefor.
- i kùai i bô̤ pât sṳ̄, kùai kìe sĭ i m̄ thiaⁿ i kâi ūe;
- she does not find fault with him for anything else, but blames him simply for not heeding what she says.
- kùai put tit i m̄ hàuⁿ;
- it is not surprising that he is unwilling.
- kùai tăng kâi sṳ̄;
- it passes belief; it is incredibly strange.
- bô̤ kùai i cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;
- I do not blame him for doing so.
- môk kùai i cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
- it is no fault of his that he is thus.
- chĭ kùai;
- one who studies the markets, and acts as agent in sales; a bull or a bear in the stock market.
- cí pang chĭ-kùai hùe, sim pí nâng to m̄ tâng;
- these stock brokers have not hearts like other people.
- kùai cêk pak sìeⁿ;
- paint a portrait.
- kùai tī-tô;
- draw a map.
- kùai tô;
- to draw a plan.
- kùai tieⁿ suaⁿ tô;
- sketch a landscape.