# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kuai
### kuai

* 乖kuai47047
* Perverse; sulky; cunning; crafty.

#### i kâi nâng kuai-khá căi;

    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.
* 䲅kuai48219511
* 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.

#### kuai pó;

    dried sunfish.
* 柺kúai470755
* A staff for old men.

#### kúai-cĭang;

    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.
* 跛kúai7031575
* Halt, lame, crippled.

#### kúai-kha;

    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.
* 拐kúai470645
* To deceive; to swindle; to decoy; to entrap.

#### kúai-phìen nâng;

    to swindle people.

#### kúai-tô̤ nâng kâi cṳ-nîe;

    seduce other men's wives.

#### a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khṳt i kúai-phìen khù 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.
* 怪kùai470615
* To blame; to find fault with; to deem strange; strange; marvellous; portentous; supernatural.

#### kùai-ĭ kâi sṳ̄;

    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, ​kùai kìe sĭ i m̄ thiaⁿ i kâi ūe;

    she does not find fault with him for anything else, but blames him simply for not heeding what she says.

#### kùai put tit i m̄ hàuⁿ;

    it is not surprising that he is unwilling.

#### kùai tăng kâi sṳ̄;

    it passes belief; it is incredibly strange.

#### bô̤ kùai i cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;

    I do not blame him for doing so.

#### môk kùai i cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

    it is no fault of his that he is thus.
* 儈kùai485913
* One who acts as broker; to keep up or settle the price of goods.

#### chĭ kùai;

    one who studies the markets, and acts as agent in sales; a bull or a bear in the stock market.

#### cí pang chĭ-kùai hùe, sim pí nâng to m̄ tâng;

    these stock brokers have not hearts like other people.
* 繪kùai26512013
* To paint; to draw; to limn.

#### kùai cêk pak sìeⁿ;

    paint a portrait.

#### kùai tī-tô;

    draw a map.

#### kùai tô;

    to draw a plan.

#### kùai tieⁿ suaⁿ tô;

    sketch a landscape.