Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phoi
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phoi
[edit]- phoi-síu;
- the scholar at the head of the list placarded after an examination.
- 批phoi679644
- To reply officially to an inferior; to give a decision or order to subordinates; to post a judgment as is done at the door of the office; notice or report of a case.
- cīeⁿ jît kâi tîaⁿ jîp lío ŭ phoi a būe?
- Has the plea which was entered the other day received official attention yet?
- íⁿ-keng phoi cún lío;
- has already assented to the petition.
- khṳ̀ lío táng i phoi hûe;
- go and wait for the official reply.
- phoi sī;
- to publish a case.
- úa thóiⁿ-kùe cu-phoi;
- I have seen the official paper with notes in red ink.
- cĭu-sî cū phoi-tẁn;
- decided the case on the spot.
- toaⁿ tèng phoi mêng-pêh;
- the order tells plainly what is to be done.
- i kâi bûn-cieⁿ cò̤-nî phoi?
- What is the reply given in the dispatch?
- cú-kháu phoi kàu hó̤ căi;
- the Commissioner superintending the Examinations, decided the case in an admirable way.
- phoi mêng sì-cì;
- settle the boundaries.
- kuaⁿ phoi po̤h chut lâi;
- what came out in the cross-examination by the magistrate.
- phang phoi;
- side notes.
- phoi tīo phûe;
- pare off the rind.
- phoi cheⁿ-phûe lâi;
- pare green pears.
- hĭa-phòi;
- fragments of tiles.
- cang àng-le cîeh-phòi tó̤ sie kâk;
- throwing potsherds and bits of stone at each other.
- chûn cêk phòi-kíaⁿ tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;
- have but a shaving of it left.
- khîeh nŏ̤ phòi pang lâi kṳ̀;
- took two strips of board to saw.