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 ; kuah cò̤ nâng-kíaⁿ;
 * carve representations of human figures.


 * i ŏi kuah lám-hût;
 * he knows how to carve olive pits.


 * kuah cò̤ pêⁿ tói kĭa kîⁿ kâi;
 * carve a flat center and raised border.


 * kuah kang;
 * a wood-carver.


 * An edible creeper; relatives.
 * hun-kuah;
 * sweet potatoes.
 * sweet potatoes.


 * hun-kuah hún;
 * pototopotato [sic] flour.


 * hun-kuah îⁿ;
 * pellets made from potato flour.


 * pû hun-kuah thng;
 * make potato soup.


 * lâk-gûeh hun-kuah sang sí;
 * in the sixth month the sweet potatoes are extremely mealy.


 * hip sêk hun-kuah;
 * cook potatoes in a closely covered dish with little water.


 * cṳ́ cho̤h hun-kuah hîeh lâi cîah;
 * boil some sweet potato leaves to eat.


 * kuah-pò;
 * a coarse sleazy cloth.


 * kio i sĭm-mih kue-kuah?
 * Is there any relationship between them?


 * hun-kuah tîn;
 * sweet potato vines.


 * hun-kuah thâu hó̤ khṳt tṳ cîah;
 * the parings of the potatoes may be given to the pigs.


 * hun-kuah phûe màiⁿ peh cêk koiⁿ;
 * do not scatter the potato peel all around.


 * hun-kuah nêk;
 * the fleshy part of the tuber.


 * To cut; to gash; to divide; to deduct; to take off; to cede; to turn a debt over to a creditor.
 * kuah tīo;
 * cut off.
 * cut off.


 * kuah m̄ tn̆g;
 * can't cut it in two.


 * kuah cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;
 * cut it in two.


 * sìo-bâk kuah cheng-chó̤;
 * the accounts have been settled by a transfer of bills.


 * kuah sìo, kuah tît lío;
 * to take off from one account, and transfer to another till one is settled.


 * i kuah tŏ̤ móng nâng kò̤ hâiⁿ úa ngŏ-câp ngṳ̂n;
 * he turned over to me a portion of a certain person's debt to him, and by so doing paid me fifty dollars.


 * i kuah cêk tîo sìo;
 * he turned over an account to me.


 * kò nâng lâi kuah tĭu;
 * hire people to reap grain.


 * nìn kâi tĭu hó̤ kuah a būe?
 * Is your grain ready to cut?


 * kuah khṳ̀ ŭ sîaⁿ a bô̤?
 * Did the harvest yield above the average?


 * kuah tîeh chíu;
 * have cut my hand.


 * phīⁿ chàu-chàu, m̄ cîaⁿ kuah tīo;
 * one does not cut off his nose for smelling a stink.


 * khṳt cúi kuah tīo;
 * worn away by water.


 * kuah-sía m̄ khui;
 * could not sever.


 * cang sùaⁿ kuah kúe;
 * use a thread to cut cake.


 * Thirst; to thirst after.
 * âu ta so̤h kuah;
 * my throat is parched.
 * my throat is parched.


 * mō̤ⁿ bûe cí kuah;
 * looking at the plums to quench his thirst.


 * kháu kuah;
 * thirsty.


 * tó li khùn, âu li kuah;
 * both hungry and thirsty.


 * kói kuah;
 * allays thirst.


 * cí īeⁿ îeh ŏi cí kuah;
 * this medicine alleviates thirst.

kuai
 * Perverse; sulky; cunning; crafty.
 * i kâi nâng kuai-khá căi;
 * he is very wily.
 * he is very wily.


 * sòi-sòi cū kuai-kuai khá-khá;
 * though very young he is very artful.


 * cí kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khah kuai-ciang;
 * this child is too intractable.


 * úa thóiⁿ-tîeh khah kuai;
 * he appears to me to be too cross grained.


 * i pí pât nâng lêng-ūaⁿ kuai;
 * he is more difficult to get along with than other people.


 * sĭm sĭ kuai-khío;
 * is very cunning.


 * A species of sunfish, of which it is said that “it can inflate its belly and float; it has no gills or gall-bladder, and when it hits against any- thing it makes a noise.”
 * kuai hṳ̂;
 * the sunfish.
 * the sunfish.


 * kuai pó;
 * dried sunfish.


 * A staff for old men.
 * kúai-cĭang;
 * a cane.
 * a cane.


 * phah sang kúai;
 * go on crutches.


 * kṳ̂ kúai-cĭang;
 * leans on a crutch.


 * kúai-thûi;
 * a staff.


 * chut jîp tîeh kṳ̂ kúai-thûi;
 * wherever she goes has to lean on a staff.


 * Halt, lame, crippled.
 * kúai-kha;
 * lame of leg.
 * lame of leg.


 * kúai-kha kúai chíu;
 * crippled in both feet and hands.


 * kîaⁿ khṳ̀ kúai-a-kúai;
 * walks very lamely; limps as he goes.


 * kúai-kha hùe, cheⁿ-mêⁿ hùe;
 * the halt and the blind.


 * To deceive; to swindle; to decoy; to entrap.
 * kúai-phìen nâng;
 * to swindle people.
 * to swindle people.


 * kúai-tô̤ nâng kâi cṳ-nîe;
 * seduce other men's wives.


 * a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khṳt i kúai-phìen khùkhṳ̀ [sic] bōi;
 * children were decoyed away and sold by him.


 * kang kúai tău tô̤ kâi cŭe-hŭam;
 * the crime of kidnapping.


 * kúai bōi tṳ-kíaⁿ;
 * entrap and sell coolies.


 * To blame; to find fault with; to deem strange; strange; marvellous; portentous; supernatural.
 * kùai-ĭ kâi sṳ̄;
 * a very surprising thing.
 * a very surprising thing.


 * sĭm sĭ khî-kùai;
 * it is exceedingly queer.


 * i kâi nâng īeⁿ seⁿ lâi khî-khî kùai-kùai;
 * he has a very weird appearance.


 * kùai mûeh;
 * an apparition; a monster.


 * ìo-ciaⁿ, kúi-kùai;
 * elves and spooks.


 * kú nî cū sêng cò̤ ciaⁿ-kùai;
 * after a lapse of many years, becomes a goblin.


 * i cò̤-nî tin-tò̤ lâi kùai lṳ́?
 * Why does he turn about and blame you?


 * lṳ́ màiⁿ kùai;
 * do not deem it surprising.


 * úa bô̤ kùai lṳ́;
 * I do not find fault with you therefor.


 * i kùai i bô̤ pât sṳ̄,