Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/tok

by Adele Marion Fielde

tok

• 砍tok3151124
• To chop; to cut with a large knife and a downward stroke.

màiⁿ tok tîeh chíu;

do not chop your hand.

kĭen kàu tok khih to̤;

it is so hard as to break a piece out of the knife when chopping it.

• 督tok9211098
• An overseer; a superior; to oversee.

cóng-tok;

governor-general.

cí kâi thî-tok sĭ lêk lō kâi a sĭ cúi-su kâi?

Is this commander one who directs the military or the naval operations of the province?

thî-tok hâk-cèng;

the provincial director of examinations.

ŵt-hái-kwn kàm-tok;

the collector of customs at Canton.

hô̤-tok sĭ kẃn-lí n̂g-hô̤ kâi cóng-tok;

the River commissioner is one who attends to all matters connected with the navigation of the Yellow River.

châu-ūn cóng-tok;

the Commissioner in charge of the Grand Canal.

tok piaⁿ khṳ̀ kio i cìen;

lead the troops out to bat tle with him.

ka-kī chut lâi tok tīn;

himself came out to head the troops.

tī-tîang tó̤ tok kang?

Who superintends the work?

i kà-tok khṳ̀ ngîam căi;

he gave the strictest instruction concerning it.

tok-ceh kíaⁿ-tĭ hùe màiⁿ thèng cò̤;

admonish the children not to act carelessly.

ka-kī tok phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;

himself looks after the goods.

phài nâng tó̤ tok-lí;

depute some one to attend to it.

• 篤tok92111810
• Sincere; honest; to be important, real or great; to regard seriously.

i ío tok-sît;

he is the more reliable.

i phêng-sù tok sìn cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄;

he formerly had implicit confidence in that sort of thing.

kàu pēⁿ tok kâi sî-hāu cū khṳ̀ hàm i a-hiaⁿ lâi;

when his ailment became serious, they went and called his brother.

i kâi pēⁿ sĭ ngûi-tok;

his disease is eminently dangerous.

• 剁tok910186
• To chop fine; to mince; to hash with a chopping knife; to cut up fine by chopping with two knives.

tok chùi cē;

hash it finer.

tok cò̤ nêk-chò̤;

chop it up into hash.

i khṳt cèng nâng tok cò̤ nêk-cìeⁿ;

he was hacked into mince-meat by the populace.

tok nêk îⁿ;

meat balls.

tok-nêk-chò̤;

hash.

cêk ē to̤ tok lô̤h khṳ̀ cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;

chopped in two by one stroke of the knife.

• 築tok961189
• To beat down hard as a threshing floor; to ram down the earth; to erect.

tok bé-thâu;

make a jetty.

tok toi;

make a dike.

tok tîo cîeh lî;

to build a stone wall.

sin tok kâi phàu-thâi;

the newly made fort.

• 琢tok82968
• To work in gems; to cut precious stones.

khuaⁿ nē tio khuaⁿ nē tok;

slowly cut and polish.

gêk put tok cū put sêng khì;

an unwrought gem is of no use.

• 獨tôk9219413
• Solitary, alone, isolated, by one's self; widowed or childless; left alone; one's own consciousness or what is only felt by himself; one of; only; yet.

nî lău, bô̤ kíaⁿ, kìe-cò̤ tôk;

when old and child-less one is said to be lone.

tôk mâk;

one eyed.

tôk kha;

one legged.

tôk kha, tôk chíu, cò̤ m̄ lâi;

cannot do it single handed.

tôk kâi phīⁿ khang;

loss of the dividing cartilage in the nose.

tôk ciah hĭⁿ;

has only one ear.

kùa tôk ciah hĭⁿ-kau;

wears a single earring.

tôk-cṳ̆ cêk nâng;

all by himself.

tôk cŏ̤, bô̤ lîo;

sit alone and without companions.

tôk lâk, lâng thî;

cannot brace it up with only the strength of one individual.

tôk ki tṳ̄ cò̤-nî cîah?

How can one eat with a single chopstick?

toaⁿ tôk sĭ i tīaⁿ;

it is no one but him.

tôk-tôk sĭ úa cū àiⁿ;

I am the only one who wants it.

chûn tôk cío;

my lone self.

phah tôk chèng;

fire a single gun.

i pang tn̂g, tôk sĭen, sĭ tăi kùi keh;

he has square intestines and a single kidney and is a man of extraordinary powers.

cŏ̤ tôk khàng;

sit alone on the divan.

tôk-kak;

solitary, single.

• 逐tôk971627
• To drive or push out; to expel, to order away, to exorcise; out going.

kúaⁿ-tôk;

evict; drive out.

tôk chut gūa hng;

ejected and driven away.

íⁿ-keng pun úa tôk tīo khṳ̀;

has already been ejected by me.

i a-pĕ cêng pín-tôk kùe kâi;

one whom his father has disinherited and turned out of doors.

teng-teng tôk-tôk;

to gad about.

cí kâi tī-hng ío cíe teng-tôk;

there is but little running to and fro in social intercourse here abouts.

cí pńg sĭ jîp tôk phŏ;

this is the memorandum of what is daily brought in and sent out; the day book of a merchant.

i sĭ toaⁿ-toaⁿ bōi jît-tôk a sī ŭ bōi thò̤-hùe?

Does he sell what he daily buys or does he take in and sell on commission?

• 纛tôk92212019
• A large triangular standard carried before a chief; a banner.

cì tōa tôk-kî;

offer sacrifice to the great standard.

îaⁿ sang-káng cū îaⁿ kŭa ki tōa tôk-kî chut lâi;

if people go out in procession with the gods during autumn, they carry out the great banners.

• 瀆tôk9228515
• The hollows in land; used figuratively for the depressions in the face.

úa thóiⁿ i kâi sìang-măuⁿ ngâk-tôk hun mêng, lóng-cóng cìe sìeⁿ;

I see that the heights and hollows of the face are plainly distinguished and all according to the original.

i kâi mīn-tîeⁿ ngó-ngâk sì-tôk lóng-cóng bô̤ kô̤ hó̤ hîam;

his features are all faultless.

• 毒tôk922805
• Venereal disease.

pĭen-tôk;

venereal ulcers.

hṳ̂-kháu pĭen-tôk;

gaping venereal ulcers.

• 凟tôk9221515
• To profane; to desecrate; to treat with contumely.

i cìeⁿ-seⁿ sǹg sĭ siet-tôk sîn-mêng;

doing thus, he may bo considered as having blasphemed the gods.

kuaⁿ phoi tàⁿ "bô̤ îong tôk chíaⁿ";

the magistrate's decision was this "No appeals which are an abuse of privilege will be allowed".