Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/miⁿ
miⁿ
[edit]- mâk hâp miⁿ-miⁿ, tīam-tīam gût;
- shut the eyes tightly, and sleep soundly.
- i sí lío mâk hâp m̄ miⁿ;
- after he was dead, his eyes would not remain closed.
- i míⁿ sṳ̄ put ûi, i àiⁿ ŭ lĭ tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;
- there is no sort of business he will not do, he cares only for profit.
- thiⁿ mĕng míⁿ sîeⁿ;
- the decrees of heaven are not unvarying.
- mîⁿ hue;
- raw cotton.
- khṳ̀ mâh-mîⁿ chīu kha kò̤ tô̤h mâh-mîⁿ, lâi jîp tĭen;
- go under the cotton tree and gather some cotton to stuff a cushion with.
- mîⁿ phŭe;
- a thick cotton coverlet.
- phah phŭe mîⁿ;
- to bow-string cotton for coverlets.
- sĭang-hái mîⁿ;
- Shanghai cotton.
- îeⁿ mîⁿ;
- foreign cotton.
- mîⁿ tō̤;
- a cotton-bale.
- mîⁿ se;
- cotton yarn.
- pháng mîⁿ-seⁿ kâi chia;
- a spinning-wheel.
- pun kúi mîⁿ tîeh;
- possessed by a demon.
- hun mîⁿ; hun-hun mîⁿ-mîⁿ;
- bewildered; infatuated; confused.
- pun i mîⁿ khṳ̀;
- bewitched by her.
- mîⁿ-sit lō-thû;
- lost his way.
- i cong-kú cip mîⁿ, m̄ ngŏ̤;
- he holds persistently to that which possesses him, and will not shake it off; he is stolidly and willfully dull.
- khṳt mîⁿ-hun kúi khang khṳ̀ sak thô;
- was lead away by a demon that blinds and enchants people, and had the orifices of his head all stopped up with clay.
- pû kàu mîⁿ-mîⁿ;
- boil it toa pulp.
- lṳ́ kâi mûeⁿ àiⁿ pû mîⁿ a pû khīu?
- Do you want your congee boiled much or little?
- mîⁿ-nūaⁿ;
- rotten.
- cêk sin mîⁿ-mîⁿ nūaⁿ-nūaⁿ;
- his body is one mass of corruption.
- mîⁿ kha-lîam;
- a decayed shin.
- si mîⁿ;
- refuse silk.
- si mîⁿ phŭe;
- a coverlet stuffed with unspun silk.
- mîⁿ-îeⁿ;
- sheep.
- kio mîⁿ pêⁿ-pêⁿ ńng;
- soft as unspun silk.
- mîⁿ jông;
- elk-horns, used in medicine.
- khui mĭⁿ;
- propound a riddle.
- phah mīⁿ;
- guess riddles.
- i tah kŭa kâi mĭⁿ pêⁿ;
- he has set up a platform to propound conundrums from.
- mĭⁿ tói;
- the solution or answer.
- chíaⁿ mĭⁿ tói;
- “‘give it up.”
- cìe i kâi mĭⁿ bûn lâi thóiⁿ, phah lâi to tîeh;
- following out the puzzle as laid down in the written statement, tho solution is correct.
- phah mĭⁿ àiⁿ ŭ hûeⁿ khìo;
- in conundrums there must be a double meaning in the words.
- i sĭ thíam-mĭⁿ nâng kâi nâng;
- he is a toady.
- sĭen-kio kâi cū pit-tīaⁿ sĭen-mĭⁿ;
- the haughty are sure to be sycophantic.
- thóiⁿ tîeh ŭ kâi mĭⁿ îong;
- appears fascinating.
- mīⁿ-hue; mīⁿ-hún;
- wheaten flour.
- mīⁿ pau;
- wheaten loaves.
- mīⁿ tîo;
- vermicelli made from wheaten flour.
- phah mīⁿ;
- to make flour.
- oi mīⁿ;
- to grind into flour.