Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phong

by Adele Marion Fielde

phong

• 掬phóng457648
• To hold or grasp with both hands; a double handful; to scoop up in both hands.

m̄ cĭeⁿ cêk phóng;

there is not a double handful of it.

phóng cúi m̄ hù chùi;

water scooped up in the hands does not all reach the mouth.

• 掽phòng662649
• To run against; to meet unexpectedly; to encounter by accident.

sie phòng tîeh;

happened to meet each other.

jît àm, thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ, nŏ̤ nâng phòng káu thâu khak hueh lāu;

it was dark so that they could not see, and the two came in collision with such force that their heads bled from the bump.

phòng i m̄ tîeh;

did not come across him.

màiⁿ lâi tó̤ phòng thâu phòng náu;

do not come into collision with him.

nŏ̤ cîah cûn sie phòng;

the two vessels collided.

thèng phòng i kâi châi-khì;

it depends on his luck.

phòng tîeh ŭ ki-hŭi;

happened to have an opportunity.

líang ke tŏ̤ lō tèng siang phòng;

the two met on the road.

• 爆phòng6668615
• To crackle; to pop.

phòng-phĭe;

fire-crackers.

phah phòng-phīe;

fire off crackers.

phòng-phĭe kîu;

torpedoes.

• 狵phòng578947
• Shaggy.

phòng-mô̤ⁿ káu; phòng-mô̤-ⁿsai;

a shaggy dog.

ciah káu mô̤ⁿ phòng-phòng;

that dog has very shaggy hair.

• 埄phông661327
• Dust raised by the wind; to whirl the dust about.

huang thàu kàu muaⁿ lō phông-phông-eng;

the wind blows so that the whole road is covered with a cloud of dust.

huang li tōa, cē kîaⁿ hía sua phông-phông-kìe khí lâi;

the wind is high, and as soon as you start the fine dust swirls upward.

• 髼phông6611907
• Disheveled, uncombed hair.

thâu mô̤ⁿ li phông-song, bô̤ siu-sîp;

the hair disheveled and unkempt.

• 棚phông662758
• A booth.

kháu phông;

temporary rooms made in examination halls, by stretching awnings over the open courts and unroofed walls.

• 躘蹱phŏng-pheng569
• To stagger.

khí-thâu-ē ô̤h kîaⁿ, kîaⁿ lâi phŏng-pheng phŏng-pheng;

in beginning to learn to walk, one staggers.

i sĭ cîu cùi kâi īeⁿ, kîaⁿ lō phŏng-pheng phŏng-pheng;

he staggers as if he were tipsy.