# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/bu
### bú

* 舞bú10621368
* Posture-making.

#### thìo-bú;

    dancing and tumbling.

#### ko̤-bú;

    singing and dancing.

#### bú kìam;

    fencing.

#### bú-lŏng;

    play a double part.

#### bú-pī;

    surreptitiously.

#### kó bú;

    pantomimes.

#### bú ît;

    perform as mummers, who act in relays of eight, at the worship of ancestors.
* 撫bú1456412
* To pacity; to sooth; manage.

#### bù-íang;

    to rear or nurture.

#### tâng sòi bú-íang kàu tōa;

    reared up from childhood.

#### uaⁿ-bú peh-sèⁿ;

    to manage the people.

#### bú-īⁿ; bú-thâi; sûn-bú;

    the governor of a province.
* 武bú1061774
* Military; warlike; martial.

#### bûn bú;

    civil and military.

#### bú kuaⁿ;

    bú cìang; military officers.

#### bú-thông;

    cadets.

#### khì bûn, cíu bú;

    discard the civil service and enter the military.

#### ô̤h bú;

    learn military tactics.

#### ô̤h bú gōi;

    learn to be a soldier.

#### bú hu;

    a soldierly man.

#### līen bú;

    practiced in warfare.

#### bú tîeⁿ;

    an arena for military trials.

#### eng-hîong bô̤ eng-bú cṳ tí;

    a valiant man without a field to make conquests in.

#### bûn bú húe;

    intense heat.

#### bú-tẁn hieⁿ-lí;

    to intimidate the villages.

#### bûn bú hak;

    civil and military authority.

#### tá bú sin;

    dress in military costume.

#### bōi bú;

    a mock battle.

#### bú cìen;

    prepared as for a fight.

#### kà bú;

    instruct in military tactics.

#### bú-bú nē;

    a martial air.

#### ĭo-bú îang-ui;

    martial splendor and dignity.

#### bú îaⁿ;

    a military camp. ​
* 擊bú3956413
* To attack with weapons; to charge upon.

#### i khîa ki thûi cū bú khṳ̀;

    he took a club and charged upon them.

#### i khṳt i bú pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;

    they were knocked down by his onset.

#### bú sí;

    to set upon and kill.
* 鵡bú10611967
* A parrot that can talk.

#### eng-bú;

    a parrot.

#### pêh eng-bú;

    a cockatoo.

#### eng-bú ŏi tàⁿ ūe, hŵn sǹg sĭ cío;

    though parrots can talk they are still reckoned among birds.
* 侮bú106197
* To ridicule and neglect.

#### bú-lŏng;

    to make game of.

#### bú-bw̆n;

    to lord it over.
* 赳bú4141562
* To carry the head high; high and mighty.

#### thóin tîeh bú-bú;

    appears very gallant.

#### siu-sîp kàu nĕ bú-bú;

    apparelled in such a way as to appear very menacing.
* 巫bû1059484
* Enchantment; magic.

#### lâm-bú;

    a wizzard.

#### ńng-bû;

    a witch.
* 誣bû10591497
* To affirm what is false, with malicious intentions; to inculpate falsely; to invent a statement; to calumniate.

#### bû-lūa nâng;

    to implicate unjustly.

#### bû hām;

    to involve so as to injure.

#### bû sì, hok mîn;

    delude the people.

#### bû-kò̤ àiⁿ hẃn cŏ̤, kù-chṳ́ m̄ hó̤ bû-kò̤ nâng;

    a lying charge brings down its punishment on the accuser, therefore make no lying charges.

#### m̄ hó̤ bû lîang ûi tău, m̄ hó̤ bû lîang ûi chiang;

    do not falsely accuse the upright of theft and the pure of lewdness.

#### pĭ nâng bû kâi;

    subjected to a false accusation.
* 廡bû10625312
* A porch or vestibule.

#### lîang bû;

    a summer portico.

#### tâng bû, sâi bû;

    east and west piazzas.

#### lăi bû, gūa bû;

    inner and outer galleries.
* 蕪bû105914012
* Overgrown with weeds.

#### chân-hn̂g huang-bû;

    neglected fields.
* 務bŭ1062198
* To bend the mind to a subject; to strive after; concerns; business; an intensive particle; certainly.

#### sṳ̄-bŭ;

    business.

#### kong bŭ;

    public affairs.

#### ke bŭ;

    domestic concerns.

#### cwn bŭ thâk cṳ;

    devoted to study.

#### cò̤ sṳ̄ tîeh bŭ pún;

    in the transaction of business there must be undivided attention.

#### lông bŭ;

    agricultural affairs.

#### gūa bŭ;

    extraneous sources of profit.

#### bŭ gūa;

    attend to outside concerns.

#### bŭ-pit tîeh cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

    it is necessarily so.

#### bŭ-su tîeh nā kò̤;

    must certainly stay.

#### bŭ-pit;

    indispensable.

#### sṳ̄-bŭ cōi;

    has many functions; has much to attend to.
* 轟bū23415914
* To blurt forth; to fire upon; to destroy as a cannon does.

#### i kâi chù khṳt tōa phàu bū tó̤ khṳ̀;

    his house was blown down by the cannon.

#### bū sí kuí câp nâng;

    killed several tens of persons by the blast.

#### bū tîm i kâi cûn;

    sunk their ship by firing upon it.

#### cía phàu khah sòi ki, bū i bô̤ bī;

    this cannon is too small, firing it has no effect.

#### bū kàu i kâi îaⁿ chap-chap-chùi;

    fired upon their intrenchment and blew it to pieces.
* 噴bū8303012
* To blow out of the mouth in the form of vapor; to spurt out of the mouth.

#### bū cúi lío cìaⁿ hó̤ sàṳ tò̤;

    spurt water out of the mouth to settle the dust, and then you may sweep the floor.

#### cîah cúi-hun bū tâm tò̤;

    those who smoke strong tobacco spit all over the floor.
* 霧bū106217310
* Mist; vapor in the air.

#### hûn-bū;

    misty.

#### hwt bū;

    become misty.

#### mông-bū mông-bū;

    very foggy.

#### thiⁿ bū-bū, àiⁿ lô̤h hŏ;

    the sky is cloudy, it is going to rain.

#### in-bū;

    steam.

#### suaⁿ khṳt bū câh tîeh;

    the view of the land is cut off by the vapor.

#### pìn koiⁿ bū-bū, lî hn̆g cĭu thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;

    is full of mist, so that you cannot see far.
* 瞀bū5881099
* Dim; bedimmed.

#### mâk bū-bū;

    my eyes are dim.

#### mâk thóiⁿ tîeh pêh-bū pêh-bū;

    his vision is clouded.
* 紑bū1411204
* New and lustrous like white silk.

#### pêh-bū, pêh-bū;

    clean and bright.

#### pêh kàu ŏi bū;

    of dazzling whiteness.