Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phok

by Adele Marion Fielde

phok

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• Sincere, plain, unpretending.

phok-sît;

honest, rustic, sincere, simple minded.

khĭam-phok;

frugal, expending no more than is necessary.

kui ciu, hẃn phok;

to reform one's habits.

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• To take an impression by rubbing upon a paper laid over a stone; a facsimile; an impression.

cía jī tŏ̤ tī-kò̤ phok lâi?

From what was this impression taken?

sĭ tŏ̤ cṳ̆-īⁿ lăi kâi cîeh-pi phok chut lâi kâi;

it was taken from a stone tablet in the college.

phok jī-thiap;

take impressions for use as examples to copy.

phok khṳ̀ hŭn-hŭn;

blurred in taking the impression.

• 凸phok892174
• Protuberant; bulging.

phok mâk;

protruding eyeballs.

phok-mâk kim-lí;

eyeballs bulging from their sockets, like those of goldfish.

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• To impinge; to strike upon; to flap; to flog.

chin-chĭeⁿ húe sie khṳ̀ cē khuah cū o̤h phoh-mît;

like fire which after it reaches a certain height, is slapped out with great difficulty.

hṳ́ cêk kó châk cò̤ cē phok-mit khṳ̀;

that band of robbers was extirpated at a stroke.

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• To divine by looking at, or by rattling coins inside a tortoise shell; to guess; sortilege; divination.

kit hiang būe phok;

not yet divined whether it is lucky or unlucky.

i suaⁿ ui mīaⁿ phok lóng-cóng ŏi;

he can practise sortilege, tell fortunes, cure the sick, and locate graves.

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• To spy; to reconnoitre.

khṳt i a-pĕ phôk tîeh;

was espied by his father.

àm-cĕⁿ hàm nâng khṳ̀ phôk-thóiⁿ i tó̤ cò̤ mih sṳ̄;

secretly engaged some one to go and find out what he was doing.

khṳ̀ phô̤k-tîeh i tú-tú tó̤ cîah a-phìen;

went and espied him just when he was smoking opium.