A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (汕頭方言音義字典) / b

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舞

• Posture-making.

• thìo-bú;

  dancing and tumbling.

• ko̤-bú;

  singing and dancing.

• bú kìam;

  fencing.

• bú-lŏng;

  play a double part.

• bú-pī;

  surreptitiously.

• kó bú;

  pantomimes.

• bú ît;

  perform as mummers, who act in relays of eight, at the worship of ancestors.

撫

• To pacity; to sooth; manage.

• bù-íang;

  to rear or nurture.

• tâng sòi bú-íang kàu tōa;

  reared up from childhood.

• uaⁿ-bú peh-sèⁿ;

  to manage the people.

• bú-īⁿ; bú-thâi; sûn-bú;

  the governor of a province.

武

• Military; warlike; martial.

• bûn bú;

  civil and military.

• bú kuaⁿ;

  bú cìang; military officers.

• bú-thông;

  cadets.

• khì bûn, cíu bú;

  discard the civil service and enter the military.

• ô̤h bú;

  learn military tactics.

• ô̤h bú gōi;

  learn to be a soldier.

• bú hu;

  a soldierly man.

• līen bú;

  practiced in warfare.

• bú tîeⁿ;

  an arena for military trials.

• eng-hîong bô̤ eng-bú cṳ tí;

  a valiant man without a field to make conquests in.

• bûn bú húe;

  intense heat.

• bú-tẁn hieⁿ-lí;

  to intimidate the villages.

• bûn bú hak;

  civil and military authority.

• tá bú sin;

  dress in military costume.

• bōi bú;

  a mock battle.

• bú cìen;

  prepared as for a fight.

• kà bú;

  instruct in military tactics.

• bú-bú nē;

  a martial air.

• ĭo-bú îang-ui;

  martial splendor and dignity.

• bú îaⁿ;

  a military camp.

擊

• To attack with weapons; to charge upon.

• i khîa ki thûi cū bú khṳ̀;

  he took a club and charged upon them.

• i khṳt i bú pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;

  they were knocked down by his onset.

• bú sí;

  to set upon and kill.

鵡

• A parrot that can talk.

• eng-bú;

  a parrot.

• pêh eng-bú;

  a cockatoo.

• eng-bú ŏi tàⁿ ūe, hŵn sǹg sĭ cío;

  though parrots can talk they are still reckoned among birds.

侮

• To ridicule and neglect.

• bú-lŏng;

  to make game of.

• bú-bw̆n;

  to lord it over.

赳

• To carry the head high; high and mighty.

• thóin tîeh bú-bú;

appears very gallant.

• siu-sîp kàu nĕ bú-bú;

  apparelled in such a way as to appear very menacing.

巫

• Enchantment; magic.

• lâm-bú;

  a wizzard.

• ńng-bû;

  a witch.

誣

• To affirm what is false, with malicious intentions; to inculpate falsely; to invent a statement; to calumniate.

• bû-lūa nâng;

  to implicate unjustly.

• bû hām;

  to involve so as to injure.

• bû sì, hok mîn;

  delude the people.

• bû-kò̤ àiⁿ hẃn cŏ̤, kù-chṳ́ m̄ hó̤ bû-kò̤ nâng;

  a lying charge brings down its punishment on the accuser, therefore make no lying charges.

• m̄ hó̤ bû lîang ûi tău, m̄ hó̤ bû lîang ûi chiang;

  do not falsely accuse the upright of theft and the pure of lewdness.

• pĭ nâng bû kâi;

  subjected to a false accusation.

廡

• A porch or vestibule.

• lîang bû;

  a summer portico.

• tâng bû, sâi bû;

  east and west piazzas.

• lăi bû, gūa bû;

  inner and outer galleries.

蕪

• Overgrown with weeds.

• chân-hn̂g huang-bû;

  neglected fields.

務

• To bend the mind to a subject; to strive after; concerns; business; an intensive particle; certainly.

• sṳ̄-bŭ;

  business.

• kong bŭ;

  public affairs.

• ke bŭ;

  domestic concerns.

• cwn bŭ thâk cṳ;

  devoted to study.

• cò̤ sṳ̄ tîeh bŭ pún;

  in the transaction of business there must be undivided attention.

• lông bŭ;

  agricultural affairs.

• gūa bŭ;

  extraneous sources of profit.

• bŭ gūa;

  attend to outside concerns.

• bŭ-pit tîeh cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

  it is necessarily so.

• bŭ-su tîeh nā kò̤;

  must certainly stay.

• bŭ-pit;

  indispensable.

• sṳ̄-bŭ cōi;

  has many functions; has much to attend to.

轟

• To blurt forth; to fire upon; to destroy as a cannon does.

• i kâi chù khṳt tōa phàu bū tó̤ khṳ̀;

  his house was blown down by the cannon.

• bū sí kuí câp nâng;

  killed several tens of persons by the blast.

• bū tîm i kâi cûn;

  sunk their ship by firing upon it.

• cía phàu khah sòi ki, bū i bô̤ bī;

  this cannon is too small, firing it has no effect.

• bū kàu i kâi îaⁿ chap-chap-chùi;

  fired upon their intrenchment and blew it to pieces.

噴

• To blow out of the mouth in the form of vapor; to spurt out of the mouth.

• bū cúi lío cìaⁿ hó̤ sàṳ tò̤;

  spurt water out of the mouth to settle the dust, and then you may sweep the floor.

• cîah cúi-hun bū tâm tò̤;

  those who smoke strong tobacco spit all over the floor.

霧

• Mist; vapor in the air.

• hûn-bū;

  misty.

• hwt bū;

  become misty.

• mông-bū mông-bū;

  very foggy.

• thiⁿ bū-bū, àiⁿ lô̤h hŏ;

  the sky is cloudy, it is going to rain.

• in-bū;

  steam.

• suaⁿ khṳt bū câh tîeh;

  the view of the land is cut off by the vapor.

• pìn koiⁿ bū-bū, lî hn̆g cĭu thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;

  is full of mist, so that you cannot see far.

瞀

• Dim; bedimmed.

• mâk bū-bū;

  my eyes are dim.

• mâk thóiⁿ tîeh pêh-bū pêh-bū;

  his vision is clouded.

紑

• New and lustrous like white silk.

• pêh-bū, pêh-bū;

  clean and bright.

• pêh kàu ŏi bū;

  of dazzling whiteness.