# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/piⁿ
### piⁿpiⁿ

* 鞭piⁿ6871779
* A whip; a lash; to lash.

#### bé-piⁿ;

    a horsewhip.

#### i pun i piⁿ-phah cèk peh ē;

    he received a hundred lashes from him.

#### phûe piⁿ;

    a leathern whip.

#### sái sang piⁿ;

    wield a pair of bludgeons.
* 邊piⁿ68616215
* On the border or side; the margin.

#### lâi cŏ̤ pàng úa sin-piⁿ;

    come and sit beside me.

#### châng piⁿ châng, chù piⁿ chù;

    their fields and houses adjoin.

#### cêk piⁿ co̤h chîeⁿ nŏ̤ piⁿ kng;

    the party who builds the partition wall, makes both sides of it smooth.

#### i cò̤-nî jĭm hàm m̄ bûa piⁿ?;

    Why does he not come when he is called?

#### tŏ̤ hìeⁿ pôiⁿ piⁿ;

    on the other side.

#### kàu cìeⁿ pôiⁿ piⁿ;

    has reached this side.

#### hue piⁿ ngṳ̂n;

    the milled dollar.

#### hût piⁿ ngṳ̂n;

    dollars having a head on one side.

#### tói piⁿ;

    the inner face.

#### gūa piⁿ;

    the outer face.

#### i chùi piⁿ seⁿ lîap kì;

    he has a mole on the side of his mouth.

#### cí kâi sĭ i sin-piⁿ kâi nâng;

    this is his companion or concubine.
* 辮piⁿ68912014
* The queue.

#### pĭⁿ piⁿ;

    plait the queue.

#### i kâi piⁿ ŭ ciap cáng a bô̤?;

    Does he wear false hair in his queue?

#### i cang piⁿ hiuh i;

    he struck her with his queue.

#### cáng i kâi piⁿ;

    clutched his queue.

#### cêk nâng túi piⁿ, cêk nâng peⁿ kha;

    one dragged him by the queue ​
    and the other by his feet.

#### pĭⁿ nŏ̤ kí píⁿ-kíaⁿ;

    braid two little queues.

#### piⁿ jṳ̂ căi;

    his queue in unkempt.

#### khŵn piⁿ;

    wind the queue around the head.

#### piⁿ tá cò̤ cang-kíaⁿ-lô̤;

    coil up the queue in a knot at the back of the head.

#### siu piⁿ;

    comb the queue.

#### lâu piⁿ;

    let the hair grow out to form a queue.

#### i thì tīo piⁿ khṳ̤̀ cò̤ hûe-sīeⁿ;

    he shaved off his queue and became a priest.

#### piⁿ búe so̤h;

    the silk braided into the queue.
* 扁píⁿ687635
* Flat; thin.

#### cêk kò̤ cîeh píⁿ-píⁿ;

    a thin slab of stone.

#### i kâi mīn seⁿ lâi pô̤h-píⁿ;

    her face is very thin.

#### teh kàu nĕ píⁿ-píⁿ;

    pressed down very flat.

#### iⁿ m̄ cîaⁿ îⁿ, píⁿ m̄ cîaⁿ píⁿ;

    it is all out of shape.

#### i kâi chài-pó tâh kàu píⁿ-píⁿ;

    his dried turnips are trampled down flat.
* 變pìⁿ68914916
* To transform; to change; a mutation from one state of being to another or to the original condition.

#### pìⁿ mīn;

    to change countenance.

#### i ŏi pìⁿ cò̤ nâng;

    it is metamorphosed into a human being.

#### i ŏi kōi pìⁿ a bŏi?;

    Is it apt to change?

#### cong-kú bŏi pìⁿ;

    never changes.

#### pìⁿ cò̤ kúi;

    turns into a demon.

#### i bô̤ tau bô̤ tah, cū pìⁿ mīn pìⁿ súi;

    he changes countenance when there is not the least occasion for it.

#### i hŵn lío pìⁿ būe chŵn;

    its transformation is not yet complete.

#### jĭm sói bŏi pìⁿ sek;

    will endure washing without changing its color.

#### cṳ-nîe-kíaⁿ câp-poih pìⁿ;

    a young girl goes through many transformations.

#### i cí ău pìⁿ kàu hó̤ căi;

    he is lately much changed for the better.

#### ŭ khi sua-hṳ̂ ŏi pìⁿ cò̤ hóⁿ;

    there is a species of shark that changes into a tiger.
* 辮piⁿ68912014
* To braid; to plait; braid.

#### pĭⁿ cò̤ cêk tio so̤h;

    plait it and make a rope of it.

#### pĭⁿ piⁿ;

    braid the queue.

#### phah pĭⁿ;

    make braids.

#### hue pĭⁿ;

    flowered braid.

#### kim pĭⁿ;

    gold braid.

#### pĭⁿ àiⁿ pĭⁿ kín a pĭⁿ khùaⁿ?;

    Do you wish to have the braid plaited tightly or loosely?
* 辯piⁿ68814914
* To dispute; to argue; to wrangle for a notion.

#### póiⁿ-pĭⁿ;

    to argue the point; to force a construction; to dispute a proposition.

#### i m̄ khéng sù-hôk, cong-kú tó̤ póiⁿ-pĭⁿ;

    he is unwilling to submit, and is forever arguing the point.

#### mih hō̤ ūe i to póiⁿ-pĭⁿ ŭ lâi;

    he will take the contrary side in whatever one advocates.