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

某

Used for a certain person or thing when the name is unknown, or when respect or caution forbids its use.
móng nâng tŏ̤ mē?

Is a certain person there? àiⁿ khṳ̀ móng kò̤;

want to go to a certain place.
móng jît, móng nî;

a certain day and year.
móng mûeh;

a certain thing.

Dull, not intelligent.
móng-móng tóng-tóng, mih sṳ̄ m̄ pat;

he is exceedingly dull, and does not know anything.
móng-tóng căi, to m̄ khui khìo;

very stupid, and seems to have no use of his faculties.

貿

To barter; to exchange.
mòng-êk;

to do business; to trade; to carry on commerce; interchange of articles.
mòng-êk kong phêng;

a fair exchange.
to sĭ lâi tŏ̤ cí kâi po-thâu tèng mòng-êk;

always comes to this mart to buy and sell.

朦

The moon about to set.
gûeh mông-mông;

the moon is dim.
gûeh sek mông-lông;

the moon looks hazy.
mông-mông lông-lông, thóiⁿ m̄ hīn;

very hazy, so that one cannot see distinctly.

謀

A stratagem, a device, an artifice; to plot; to contrive, to plan; to deliberate; to obtain.
mông hāi;

to plot against.
kòi-mông;

scheme.
i àm-cĕⁿ mông hẃn;

he secretly plotted rebellion.
mông sṳ̄ tŏ̤ nâng, sêng sūy tŏ̤ thiⁿ;

man proposes, but heaven disposes.
cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ lâi mông-ûi kàu sêng;

let us plan for this till it is accomplished.
cía cîⁿ sĭ úa kio i thòi mông-ûi kâi;

this money is some that I contrived to obtain for him.
mông châi kù suah; mông châi hāi mīaⁿ;

murder for the sake of gain.
mông suah;

to plot murder.
sĭ i tó̤ cò̤ mông-cú;

he was the contriver of the plot.
tī-tîang cú-mông?

Who contrived it?
mîaⁿ-ke kâi mông-sṳ̆;

clever advisers.
ŭ íong bô̤ mông;

has courage without cunning.
mông seⁿ;

contrive to get a living.
cí kâi nâng sĭm ŭ mông-lîak;

this is a man of many devices.

蒙

Ignorant; to behave rather rudely; an affected term for thankful, grateful for favors; a pupil; a

child.

濛

矇

Dim sighted; unable to see from age; indistinct vision, from disease of the nerve, as in amaurosis.
mâk mông-mông;

unable to perceive objects clearly.
cùi-ngán mông-lông, thóiⁿ m̄ tīaⁿ;

seeing double, as through intoxication.

摸

礞

mông-cîeh;

a shaly bole, a micaceous schist of a fine quality prescribed in cases of derangement or fits.
ēng mông-cîeh lâi kún tīo i kâi thâm;

use this micaceous schist to break up the phlegm.

舞

To flourish the limbs.
mŏng kìam;

fencing.
mŏng thûi;

to brandish a mallet.
mŏng to̤;

to flourish a knife.
mŏng thûi hue;

to perform with a club.
mŏng tîn-pâi;

to fence with a shield.
kha tâh, chíu mŏng;

to perform as a harlequin; to stamp the feet and flourish the hands.
mŏng kàu hêk;

made postures until he was tired.