# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/sok
### soksok

* 束sok779753
* To bind many things together, to tie in a bundle, as fagots; to restrain, to coerce; a sheaf, a bundle; a classifier of such things as are bound.

#### sok cò̤ cêk sok;

    bind them up in one bundle.

#### kwn lăi kâi sok-siu sĭ jîeh cōi?

    In the written agreement with the teacher, what is the sum agreed upon as his wages?
    ak-sok; iak-sok;
    to repress, to keep down.

#### tîeh cai ak-sok i màiⁿ hùang-sṳ̀;

    must keep him under restraint so that he will not be impudent.

#### iak-sok kàu ngîam căi;

    kept in strict subjection.

#### m̄-hó̤ sok-pâk kàu nâng bô̤ lō hó̤ kîaⁿ;

    should not bind people so that they have no freedom of action.

#### hái-îeⁿ kâi pńg chut lâi ŭ jîeh cōi sok?

    How many bundles of fifty essays each were there, belonging to the Hai Ie candidates?
    i cí hûe sît-căi sok chíu;
    he is now really unable to act.
* 索sok8151204
* To place under obligation harmfully.

#### lêk-sok;

    extort.

#### cà sok;

    badger.

#### sok mīaⁿ;

    to involve one's life.

#### sok i kâi hûn;

    implicate to such an extent as to involve all he possesses.
* 縮sok78012011
* To shrink; to contract; to shrivel up; to draw in.

#### lîm tīn, thò̤-sok;

    retreated when face to face with the enemy.

#### sok cò̤ cêk kò̤-kíaⁿ;

    shriveled up to a little bit.

#### sok-tó̤ ku-ā chùn;

    shrunk several inches.

#### kṳn sok kàu ŏi thìaⁿ;

    the tendon is drawn up so that it aches.

#### sok-bûa;

    to draw in.

#### sok-bûa cìaⁿ bŏi kûe lō;

    draw back, so as not to be in the way.

#### úa kâi kha, thiⁿ-sî chìn cū ŏi sok sòi;

    when the weather is cold my feet shrivel and become smaller.

#### sok cò̤ cêk pé;

    all shrunk up in a bunch.

#### sok kàu sòi-sòi;

    shriveled up small.
* 速sok8231627
* Hasty, speedy, quick, urgent.

#### sok-sok cū khṳ̀ lí;

    went quickly to attend to it.

#### húe sok cū khṳ̀;

    went off in the utmost haste.

#### ciet sok cū lâi;

    came with the greatest speed.

#### kîaⁿ sĭ kùe sok-hieⁿ;

    goes out of fashion sooner than a common incense stick burns out.

#### àiⁿ sok put tâk;

    if you are too urgent it cannot be effected; the more haste the less speed.
* 肅sok8221297
* Respectful; reverential, as when one is desirous to do his duty fully; severe and majestic.

#### sok-cĕⁿ;

    decorous.

#### i kâi ke-kui ngîam-sok căi;

    the domestic discipline is very strict.
* 寂sok985408
* Silent; still; solitary.

#### sok-môk;

    lonely.

#### ka-kī khĭa-khí sok-môk căi;

    living all by yourself you must be lonely.

#### sok-sok môk-môk, bô̤ nâng sie phŭaⁿ;

    very lonely with no companionship.

#### sok-cĕⁿ; sok-sok cĕⁿ;

    very solitary.
* 屬sôk7804418
* To belong to; pertaining to; allied.

#### sôk tŏ̤ tī-tîang kò̤?

    To whom does it belong?

#### sĭ i kâi chin sôk;

    are his own kin.

#### cŭe bô̤ kîp i kâi ke-sôk;

    the crime does not involve his subordinates.

#### sĭ tŏ̤ i kâi sôk ĕ;

    it pertains to his inferiors.

#### sôk tŏ̤ siang-hó̤;

    depends upon his associates.

#### sṳ̄ sôk líang lâng;

    to act either way is equally difficult.

#### sôk-ŵn;

    a subaltern.

#### sôk tī-tîang kẃn?

    Under whose constrol is it?

#### cía sĭ sôk tŏ̤ lṳ́ kò̤;

    this pertains to you.

#### sôk tŏ̤ i hâng ĕ;

    subject to him.

#### cía ĭ sôk im a sĭ sôk îang?

    Does this belong to the female or to the male principle iu nature?

#### tîe-ciu-hú káu sôk;

    the Tie-Chiu Department has nine ​districts.

#### tău-thâi sĭ kẃn-lí jît-sì sôk;

    the ntendant of Circuit governs twenty-four dependencies.
* 俗sôk82297
* What the common people desire or delight in; inelegant; uneducated; common, vulgar; the low and groveling business of life; the laity; the world.

#### sì-sók;

    manners of the times.

#### sôk ĕ cíe nâng cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

    of the common people but few do thus.

#### sôk ūe;

    common talk, brogue, argot, a conventional dialect different from the book language.

#### sôk ūe cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;

    that is the way the unlearned talk.

#### cìeⁿ-seⁿ sía sĭ sôk sía;

    that is the way it is commonly written by the uneducated.

#### lîah i hŵn sôk;

    return him forcibly (from the priesthood) to common life.

#### i kâi sôk-ke sèⁿ sĭm-mûeh?

    What is his laic surname?

#### iông-sôk kâi nâng;

    the vulgar.

#### sîp sôk;

    acquire vulgar habits.

#### cí kò̤ kâi hong-sôk ío hó̤;

    the usages here are better.

#### i kâi nâng-īeⁿ seⁿ-lâi put sôk;

    his appearance is not that of a common person.

#### khah sôk;

    too commonplace.

#### sĭm sĭ sô̤-sôk;

    is very base.

#### kṳ hieⁿ sôk sĭ cìeⁿ-se;

    such are the customs of the village.

#### ak hong-sôk;

    wicked ways.

#### cí kâi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄ cū thut sôk;

    this man acts as if he were free from the prejudices of the ignorant.

#### sôk gṳ́;

    an aphorism, a proverb.

#### jîp hieⁿ sûi sôk;

    when in Rome do as the Romans do.
* 續sôk82312015
* To succeed, to keep up, to join on; continuous.

#### sôk ău cò̤-nî?

    What then follows?

#### lôk-sôk lâi ŭ jîeh cōi?

    One after the other, how many have come?

#### lâi khṳ̀ m̄ ciap-sôk;

    did not come and go continuously.

#### i cē ciap-sôk m̄ tîeh cū kang-khó chūe;

    if the continuity is broken it is difficult to find the clue again.

#### cí kâi bó sĭ ău lâi lêng-ūaⁿ sôk-hîⁿ kâi;

    this is a second wife.
* 贖sôk78115415
* To ransom; set free.

#### sôk cŭe;

    set free from the consequences of sin.

#### sôk sin;

    to manumit.

#### sôk hûe;

    to ransom.

#### sôk tńg lâi;

    to release from pawn or mortgage.

#### sôk siu ca-bó;

    a manumited female slave.

#### cang kong sôk cŭe;

    to make merit offset sin.

#### chíu-sôk;

    to redeem.