Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoi

by Adele Marion Fielde

thoi

• 釵thoi111673
• A hair-pin, broad and curved so that it will lie across the occiput; those who wear hair-pins, females.

kim thoi;

gold hair-pins.

hŏng thoi;

a hair-pin with a phenix on it.

kim-thoi cîeh hôk; thoi-hôk;

a kind of medicine, the stem of an orchid, whose dried stalks are likened to hair-pins, and look like liquorice roots.

• 體thói88418813
• The body, the whole person; a solid; a class; a body of officers; the important; essentials; becoming; respectable; influential; to receive courteously.

sin-thói;

the human body; bodily.

chut sin lò thói;

chiah sin lò thói; stark naked.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ m̄ hah thói-sek;

that is not in good taste.

cò̤ mih sṳ̄ to tîeh tit thói;

all things must be done decently and in order; in everything, suitable respect must be paid to persons.

thói-thiap;

to accommodate; to sympathize with; to put one's self in another's place.

i mih sṳ̄ to thói-thiap nâng;

he is very accommodating in everything.

thói-thóng;

decorum; what is befititng.

chŵn bô̤ kâi thói-thóng;

has no sense of propriety.

úa thóiⁿ i bô̤ kâi sin-seⁿ thói;

he does not appear to me to have the aspect of a teacher.

• 代thòi84583
• Instead, for, in place of; to alter; to supersede; to substitute.

nŏ̤ nâng sie táu thòi;

the two spell each other at it.

ŭ sî úa li thòi lú, ŭ sî lṳ́ li thò̤i úa;

sometimes you take my place, and sometimes I take yours.

lṳ́ thòi i cò̤;

you do it in his stead.

cang cí kâi thòi hṳ́ kâi lâi chō̤;

take this to put it in instead of that.

kò cêk kâi thòi-sin;

hire a substitute.

cí kâi sĭ i kâi thòi-sin;

this is his substitute.

i sĭ thòi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄;

he is acting in another's place.

kio pât nâng thòi phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;

buying and selling goods for another person.

thó̤ khṳ̀ thò̤i nâng sí;

ask the privilege of dying in another's stead.

cí kâi kuaⁿ sĭ thòi ĺi kâi;

this magistrate is acting in place of another.

i tàⁿ i cí nŏ̤ mêⁿ thiaⁿ-kìⁿ kúi tó̤ hàm thòi;

he says he has heard a bodiless spirit calling him these last two nights to commit suicide.