Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/mong

by Adele Marion Fielde

móng

• 某móng588755
• Used for a certain person or thing when the name is unknown, or when respect or caution forbids its use.

móng nâng tŏ̤ mē?

Is a certain person there? àiⁿ khṳ̀ móng kò̤;

want to go to a certain place.

móng jît, móng nî;

a certain day and year.

móng mûeh;

a certain thing.

• 懵懂móng-tóng610
• Dull, not intelligent.

móng-móng tóng-tóng, mih sṳ̄ m̄ pat;

he is exceedingly dull, and does not know anything.

móng-tóng căi, to m̄ khui khìo;

very stupid, and seems to have no use of his faculties.

• 貿mòng5891545
• To barter; to exchange.

mòng-êk;

to do business; to trade; to carry on commerce; interchange of articles.

mòng-êk kong phêng;

a fair exchange.

to sĭ lâi tŏ̤ cí kâi po-thâu tèng mòng-êk;

always comes to this mart to buy and sell.

• 朦mông6097414
• The moon about to set.

gûeh mông-mông;

the moon is dim.

gûeh sek mông-lông;

the moon looks hazy.

mông-mông lông-lông, thóiⁿ m̄ hīn;

very hazy, so that one cannot see distinctly.

• 謀mông5871499
• A stratagem, a device, an artifice; to plot; to contrive, to plan; to deliberate; to obtain.

mông hāi;

to plot against.

kòi-mông;

scheme.

i àm-cĕⁿ mông hẃn;

he secretly plotted rebellion.

mông sṳ̄ tŏ̤ nâng, sêng sṳ̄ tŏ̤ thiⁿ;

man proposes, but heaven disposes.

cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ lâi mông-ûi kàu sêng;

let us plan for this till it is accomplished.

cía cîⁿ sĭ úa kio i thòi mông-ûi kâi;

this money is some that I contrived to obtain for him.

mông châi kù suah; mông châi hāi mīaⁿ;

murder for the sake of gain.

mông suah;

to plot murder.

sĭ i tó̤ cò̤ mông-cú;

he was the contriver of the plot.

tī-tîang cú-mông?

Who contrived it?

mîaⁿ-ke kâi mông-sṳ̆;

clever advisers.

ŭ íong bô̤ mông;

has courage without cunning.

mông seⁿ;

contrive to get a living.

cí kâi nâng sĭm ŭ mông-lîak;

this is a man of many devices.

• 蒙mông60814010
• Ignorant; to behave rather rudely; an affected term for thankful, grateful for favors; a pupil; a

child.

thông-mông;

a lad.

mông-kó nâng;

Mongols, said to be an imitation of moengel, celestial.

to̤ mông lṳ́ àiⁿ-sieh;

many thanks for your kindness.

mông chú;

am obliged to you for your custom, (a shopman’s phrase).

mông-hŭn;

confused in mind.

mông-mŭeⁿ;

ignorant; not enlightened.

• 濛mông6083514
• Fine drizzling rain with fog.

hŏ mông-mông;

misty rain.

kâi thiⁿ mông-mông, cn̂g kâi sĭ hŏ;

the sky is thick with fine rain.

• 矇mông60910914
• Dim sighted; unable to see from age; indistinct vision, from disease of the nerve, as in amaurosis.

mâk mông-mông;

unable to perceive objects clearly.

cùi-ngán mông-lông, thóiⁿ m̄ tīaⁿ;

seeing double, as through intoxication.

• 摸mông6036411
• To feel for or after; to feel around.

mông m̄ tîeh;

I cannot get hold of it.

chíu m̄ hó̤ mông;

do not lay hands on it.

àiⁿ mông i kâi thâu khak cĭu sĭ;

he wants his bead, that is it.

cē so̤-mông i, i cū huaⁿ-hí;

he is pleased when one strokes him.

• 礞mông60911214

mông-cîeh;

a shaly bole, a micaceous schist of a fine quality prescribed in cases of derangement or fits.

ēng mông-cîeh lâi kún tīo i kâi thâm;

use this micaceous schist to break up the phlegm.

• 舞mŏng10621368
• To flourish the limbs.

mŏng kìam;

fencing.

mŏng thûi;

to brandish a mallet.

mŏng to̤;

to flourish a knife.

mŏng thûi hue;

to perform with a club.

mŏng tîn-pâi;

to fence with a shield.

kha tâh, chíu mŏng;

to perform as a harlequin; to stamp the feet and flourish the hands.

mŏng kàu hêk;

made postures until he was tired.

• 茂mŏng5891405

mŏng-sĕng;

luxuriant.

chīu-bâk mŏng-sĕng;

the shrubbery is thick and green.

cí câng hue khui lâi mŏng-sĕng căi;

this plant is blossoming very luxuriantly.