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dictionary of the swatow dialect.

paunch.

tìeⁿ tó;
bloated bowels.
tó ngân, tîeh khîeh mûeh lâi thâh tó;
his bowels feel cold, something must be laid over them.
tîeh cang eng, pue sie lío, lâi ù tó;
must get a brick and heat it, and put it to his bowels to warm them.
i kâi tó-tn̂g chíen;
he is shallow minded.
mih mûeh cîah cêk tó;
he stuffs himself with all sorts of stuff.
tó céng-tìeⁿ;
dropsy of the bowels.
thiaⁿ lío tīam-tīam khǹg tŏ̤ tó lăi;
heard it, and kept it laid up carefully in his mind.
pháu-tó;
colic.
sìa-tó;
diarrhea.
tó-ká;
gripes.
tó-ṳ́;
feeling of distension in the bowls.
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  • To bet; to wager; to stake; to risk.
kìm tó;
prohibit gaming.
kuaⁿ-hú chut kò̤-sī, àiⁿ lîah tó-kùn;
the magistrate has issued a notice that gamblers will be seized.
khui tó tîeⁿ;
keep a gambling hall.
i káⁿ kio i tó thâu;
she would risk her head on it.
káⁿ cū jī-ke khṳ̀ sía tó-thâu cn̄g;
if you dare do it, we will both go and write out and sign a document agreeing to do that for which the penalty is death.
i cṳ̆-lâi to sĭ o̤ chiang siet tó;
he has hitherto harbored prostitutes and instituted games of chance.
àiⁿ tó mē?
Will you bet?
àiⁿ to sĭm mûeh?
What will you bet?
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  • To wrangle; to contest; to fight; to contend for; to strive to excel.
hăi-tò;
to fight.
kak hieⁿ íⁿ-keng m̄ káⁿ hăi-tò;
the villages no longer dare engage in feuds.
líang-ke tì-kàu ceⁿ-tò;
the two got into a quarrel.
jī-ke tó̤ tò-khì;
they are having an angry dispute.
tò lâi tò khṳ̀ bô̤ su îaⁿ;
had a sharp fight in which neither got the advantage.
tò thóiⁿ tī-tîang kâi kéng chái lâi ngía;
strive and see whose display shall be the most gorgeous.
líang hóⁿ sie tò;
two tigers fighting.
nŏ̤ nâng tó̤ tò lâk;
the two are wrestling to see who is the stronger.
i tò i m̄ kùe;
he cannot get the better of her.
tò-chîu;
to compete.
tò sái cîⁿ;
rival in expenditure.
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  • To butcher.
kìm tô̤;
to prohibit the slaughter of animals for food.
khui tô̤;
remove the prohibition to slaughter animals.
tô̤ hŏ;
butchers.
khui gû tô;
open a butcher's shop.
tô thâu;
the owner of a slaughter house.
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  • A plan, drawing, diagram or chart.
ūe tī-tô;
draw maps.
cí pak tī-lí-tô ūe lâi mêng-pêh;
this map of the roads is plainly drawn.
suaⁿ tô ŭ liam tŏ̤ tîaⁿ tói a bô̤?
Is
the map of the burial place pasted on the statement entered at the yamun or not?
kò kâi ŏi ūe kâi lâi kùai tô;
hire some one who can draw to delineate a plan of it.
i kâi tô kùai lâi m̄ mêng-pêh;
their chart is not drawn in such a way as to make the location of objects plain.
cía sĭ thiⁿ-ĕ kak kok kâi chŵn tô;
this is a map of the whole world.
tong-kok kâi tī-tô;
a map of China.
ūe tieⁿ chù-kêk kâi tô;
draw up a plan of the house.
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  • A kitchen.
tô pâng;
a cook house.
tô cí;
a cook.
tng tô pâng;
act as cook for an official.
kẃn tô;
head butler.
kuaⁿ gê lăi kâi kìe-cò̤ to-pâng, cíu-kẃn kâi kìe-cò̤ tô-cí, hâng-phò kẃn-thâu ēng kâi, kìe cò̤ húe-thâu;
cooks have three different appellations, according as they are employed in a yamun, a restaurant, or in a private house.
  • 螻蛄tŏ-kâu431
  • The mole cricket.
tŏ-kâu m̄ cîah khang kháu cháu;
the mole cricket does not eat the grass at the entrance to his own burrow.
cù tŏ-kâu;
drive out mole crickets by leading water into their holes.
i sĭeⁿ khí lâi cē bô̤ cì, cū khṳ̀ phàu tŏ-kâu;
he could not come to any fixed purpose by thinking, and so went and hung himself.
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  • A sacrificial dish; a charger.
úa àiⁿ phah ngŏ kâi siah tŏ;
I want a set of sacrificial vessels made.
cieh cêk hù châ kâi tŏ lâi ēng;
borrow a set of wooden platters to use.
tŏ-pîaⁿ;
a trencher.
bói ke cêk īeⁿ cheⁿ-kúai lâi chò pái-tŏ;
buy another sort of fruit to make up the full complement of dishes to set before a god.
chò ngŏ tŏ;
fill the set of sacrificial dishes.
tŏ-pùn;
rubbish; litter; dirt.
put tīo tŏ-pùn;
clear away the litter.
hṳ́ kò̤ tah jī bô̤ nâng tò̤ tŏ-pùn;
a placard is stuck up forbidding people to throw rubbish there.
tŏ-pùn táu;
a dust-pan.
An error by which some one is disappointed;
loss, waste, damage.
pī tŏ peh chut;
a trifling error has many bad results.
sim seⁿ gî-tŏ;
he entertains a distrust of it.
lâng pó̤ bô̤ gî-tŏ;
cannot guarantee that there will be no remissness.
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  • A stomacher; tripe.
gû tŏ; îeⁿ tŏ, tṳ tŏ;
tripe of oxen, sheep or swine.
pâk kâi âng ie-tŏ;
wore a red stomacher.