# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/pit
### pitpit

* 筆pit6931186
* A pencil or small brush; a pen; to write; drawing; penmanship.

#### khîeh ki pit;

    take a pen.

#### pit chue;

    pen-handle.

#### pit tâng;

    a cylinder to hold pens.

#### pit nêk; pit mô̤ⁿ;

    the brush.

#### pit búe;

    the point.

#### pit thap;

    the case.

#### khîa pit;

    to hold a pen.

#### pit-kíaⁿ, tōa-pit;

    a small or a large pen.

#### in-pit;

    a lead pencil.

#### thih pit bô̤ î;

    my word is as good as my bond; you may rely on my so doing.

#### lô̤h pit;

    begin to write.

#### lô̤h pit jṳ̂ lêng kauh cúi;

    he writes like a dragon swirling water; he writes with an easy firm hand.

#### tùi thóiⁿ i kâi pit ciah sĭ mē;

    see if it is his hand-writing.

#### thóiⁿ sĭ i kâi chin chíu tek pit mē;

    see whether it was written by his own hand.

#### sĭ i chin pit sía kâi;

    he wrote it himself.

#### pît-ûeh ngĕ căi;

    the strokes are very bold and firm.

#### pit cṳ;

    fees to a writer.

#### sĭ pât nâng thòi pit kâi;

    it is written by an amanuensis.

#### i kâi pit-bâk hô̤;

    he is a good writer.

#### pit kè;

    a pen rack.

#### ngṳ̂n-cu pit;

    a pen for writing in red ink.

#### phùa pit;

    to begin to learn to write.
* 飽pit6641845
* Enough; satisfied; fall.

#### i cîah kàu tó pit-pit;

    he has eaten all he wants.

#### cí kâi tō̤ tìeⁿ kàu pit;

    this wallet is stuffed full.

#### cîah kàu kâi kui pit-pit;

    has eaten its crop full.

#### jîp mîⁿ, jîp kàu pit-pit;

    stuff in cotton, till it is as full as it will hold.
* 坼pit960325
* Chapped.

#### kha pit, chíu pit;

    chapped feet and hands.

#### mīn tîeh chîang sói, cìaⁿ bŏi pit;

    you must bathe your face in tepid water then it will not chap.
* 必pit692611
* A strong affirmative; certainly; must; determined on.

#### pit-pit m̄ sĭ;

    it is certainly not so.

#### hô̤ pit cìeⁿ-seⁿ?

    What necessity is there for that?

#### pit-su àiⁿ ēng;

    cannot do without it.

#### pit-jîen;

    surely.

#### pit-tīaⁿ;

    decidedly.

#### cía m̄-hó̤ pit;

    do not be too certain about this.

#### put pit jù chṳ́;

    it is not sure that it is thus.

#### būe pit;

    perhaps not.

#### sì pit;

    undoubtedly.

#### úa thóiⁿ i pit lâi;

    I think he is sure to come.

#### pit sĭ i m̄ tŏ̤;

    he is doubtless away from home.

#### i pit-pit m̆;

    he is determined that he will not.
* 畢pît6921026
* To finish; to bring to an end; all; entirely.

#### kong sṳ̄ pît a būe?

    Is the public business finished?

#### sṳ̄ lí būe pît;

    the job is not yet done.

#### ūe tàⁿ pît cū khṳ̀;

    having finished what I had to say I went.

#### pît-kéng sĭ cò̤-nì?

    After all, what is it?
* 蹕pît69215711
* To warn persons off the road and thus make way for the sovereign; an imperial journey.

#### cŭ-pît;

    a stoppage in an imperial progress.

#### móng hûang-tì tng-sî cêng cŭ-pît tŏ̤ hṳ́-kò̤;

    a certain emperor once stopped there when journeying.
* 蝙蝠pît-pô̤687
* A bat.

#### pît-pô̤ hĭⁿ;

    having ears like a bat’s.

#### pît-pô̤ sái hó̤ cò̤ îeh;

    the excrement of bats is used as a medicine.

#### ūe ngŏ kâi pît-pô̤;

    paint the five bats (a common style of ornamentation).

#### pît-pô̤ cît-cît-kìe;

    bats squeak. ​
* 弼pît693579
* To aid, as a statesman.

#### có̤-hŭ, ĭu-pît;

    the left and the right hand aids, titles of two ministers of state.