Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/pit
pit
[edit]- khîeh ki pit;
- take a pen.
- pit chue;
- pen-handle.
- pit tâng;
- a cylinder to hold pens.
- pit nêk; pit mô̤ⁿ;
- the brush.
- pit búe;
- the point.
- pit thap;
- the case.
- khîa pit;
- to hold a pen.
- pit-kíaⁿ, tōa-pit;
- a small or a large pen.
- in-pit;
- a lead pencil.
- thih pit bô̤ î;
- my word is as good as my bond; you may rely on my so doing.
- lô̤h pit;
- begin to write.
- lô̤h pit jṳ̂ lêng kauh cúi;
- he writes like a dragon swirling water; he writes with an easy firm hand.
- tùi thóiⁿ i kâi pit ciah sĭ mē;
- see if it is his hand-writing.
- thóiⁿ sĭ i kâi chin chíu tek pit mē;
- see whether it was written by his own hand.
- sĭ i chin pit sía kâi;
- he wrote it himself.
- pît-ûeh ngĕ căi;
- the strokes are very bold and firm.
- pit cṳ;
- fees to a writer.
- sĭ pât nâng thòi pit kâi;
- it is written by an amanuensis.
- i kâi pit-bâk hô̤;
- he is a good writer.
- pit kè;
- a pen rack.
- ngṳ̂n-cu pit;
- a pen for writing in red ink.
- phùa pit;
- to begin to learn to write.
- i cîah kàu tó pit-pit;
- he has eaten all he wants.
- cí kâi tō̤ tìeⁿ kàu pit;
- this wallet is stuffed full.
- cîah kàu kâi kui pit-pit;
- has eaten its crop full.
- jîp mîⁿ, jîp kàu pit-pit;
- stuff in cotton, till it is as full as it will hold.
- kha pit, chíu pit;
- chapped feet and hands.
- mīn tîeh chîang sói, cìaⁿ bŏi pit;
- you must bathe your face in tepid water then it will not chap.
- pit-pit m̄ sĭ;
- it is certainly not so.
- hô̤ pit cìeⁿ-seⁿ?
- What necessity is there for that?
- pit-su àiⁿ ēng;
- cannot do without it.
- pit-jîen;
- surely.
- pit-tīaⁿ;
- decidedly.
- cía m̄-hó̤ pit;
- do not be too certain about this.
- put pit jù chṳ́;
- it is not sure that it is thus.
- būe pit;
- perhaps not.
- sì pit;
- undoubtedly.
- úa thóiⁿ i pit lâi;
- I think he is sure to come.
- pit sĭ i m̄ tŏ̤;
- he is doubtless away from home.
- i pit-pit m̆;
- he is determined that he will not.
- kong sṳ̄ pît a būe?
- Is the public business finished?
- sṳ̄ lí būe pît;
- the job is not yet done.
- ūe tàⁿ pît cū khṳ̀;
- having finished what I had to say I went.
- pît-kéng sĭ cò̤-nì?
- After all, what is it?
- cŭ-pît;
- a stoppage in an imperial progress.
- móng hûang-tì tng-sî cêng cŭ-pît tŏ̤ hṳ́-kò̤;
- a certain emperor once stopped there when journeying.
- 蝙蝠pît-pô̤687
- A bat.
- pît-pô̤ hĭⁿ;
- having ears like a bat’s.
- pît-pô̤ sái hó̤ cò̤ îeh;
- the excrement of bats is used as a medicine.
- ūe ngŏ kâi pît-pô̤;
- paint the five bats (a common style of ornamentation).
- pît-pô̤ cît-cît-kìe;
- bats squeak.
- có̤-hŭ, ĭu-pît;
- the left and the right hand aids, titles of two ministers of state.