Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/put
put
- put khó̤;
- not feasible; unfitting.
- put lêng;
- unable.
- put pĭen;
- inconvenient.
- put sìo;
- disobedient.
- put pit;
- uncertain.
- put mêng put pêh;
- not lucid.
- put ciet, put lî;
- neither instantly nor remotely.
- bô̤ só̤ put lí;
- there is nothing that is not under his control.
- bô̤ nâng káⁿ tàⁿ kâi put jī;
- nobody dared disagree with him.
- it put cò̤, jī put hiuⁿ;
- well, I'm in for it and I'll now go through with it.
- put sam put sṳ̀;
- neither the one thing nor the other.
- i lâi sĭu put sĭ;
- he has come to make acknowledgment of an error.
- put jît cū kàu;
- he will be here erelong.
- put jû màiⁿ khṳ̀;
- it would be better not to go.
- put ieh, jṳ̂ tâng;
- without a promise it would be the same.
- khṳ̀ kàu, i put ciu, put chái;
- on our arrival, he took no notice of us.
- put tŏng put khien;
- appears out of his element; looks as if it were done by one unaccustomed to the thing; unsystematic and incomplete.
- put jîen;
- on the contrary.
- hûa-hùi cîⁿ-ngṳ̂n put cíe;
- spent no small amount of money.
- i tó lăi put tău-háu;
- he is ill at ease.
- saⁿ kṳ put phû cìaⁿ bŏi tâh tîeh;
- lift your dress and then you won't step on it.
- khò put phû cìaⁿ bŏi mûeh tâm;
- hold up your trowsers and then they will not get wet.
- kûn put phû cìaⁿ bŏi kûe tîeh kha;
- raise your skirt, then it will not get in the way of your feet.
- hàm i khṳ̀ put thô;
- tell him to go and bring earth in a hod.
- put thô lâi ceng chîeⁿ;
- bring the earth for pounding into tho wall.