# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/tok
### tok

* 砍tok3151124
* To chop; to cut with a large knife and a downward stroke.

#### màiⁿ tok tîeh chíu;

    do not chop your hand.

#### kĭen kàu tok khih to̤;

    it is so hard as to break a piece out of the knife when chopping it.
* 督tok9211098
* An overseer; a superior; to oversee.

#### cóng-tok;

    governor-general.

#### cí kâi thî-tok sĭ lêk lō kâi a sĭ cúi-su kâi?

    Is this commander one who directs the military or the naval operations of the province?

#### thî-tok hâk-cèng;

    the provincial director of examinations.

#### ŵt-hái-kwn kàm-tok;

    the collector of customs at Canton.

#### hô̤-tok sĭ kẃn-lí n̂g-hô̤ kâi cóng-tok;

    the River commissioner is one who attends to all matters connected with the navigation of the Yellow River.

#### châu-ūn cóng-tok;

    the Commissioner in charge of the Grand Canal.

#### tok piaⁿ khṳ̀ kio i cìen;

    lead the troops out to bat tle with him.

#### ka-kī chut lâi tok tīn;

    himself came out to head the troops.

#### tī-tîang tó̤ tok kang?

    Who superintends the work?

#### i kà-tok khṳ̀ ngîam căi;

    he gave the strictest instruction concerning it.

#### tok-ceh kíaⁿ-tĭ hùe màiⁿ thèng cò̤;

    admonish the children not to act carelessly.

#### ka-kī tok phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;

    himself looks after the goods.

#### phài nâng tó̤ tok-lí;

    depute some one to attend to it.
* 篤tok92111810
* Sincere; honest; to be important, real or great; to regard seriously.

#### i ío tok-sît;

    he is the more reliable.

#### i phêng-sù tok sìn cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄;

    he formerly had implicit confidence in that sort of thing.

#### kàu pēⁿ tok kâi sî-hāu cū khṳ̀ hàm i a-hiaⁿ lâi;

    when his ailment became serious, they went and called his brother.

#### i kâi pēⁿ sĭ ngûi-tok;

    his disease is eminently dangerous.
* 剁tok910186

#### To chop fine;

    to mince; to hash with a chopping knife; to cut up fine by chopping with two knives.

#### tok chùi cē;

    hash it finer.

#### tok cò̤ nêk-chò̤;

    chop it up into hash.

#### i khṳt cèng nâng tok cò̤ nêk-cìeⁿ;

    he was hacked into mince-meat by the populace.

#### tok nêk îⁿ;

    meat balls.

#### tok-nêk-chò̤;

    hash.

#### cêk ē to̤ tok lô̤h khṳ̀ cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;

    chopped in two by one stroke of the knife.
* 築tok961189
* To beat down hard as a threshing floor; to ram down the earth; to erect.

#### tok bé-thâu;

    make a jetty.

#### tok toi;

    make a dike.

#### tok tîo cîeh lî;

    to build a stone wall.

#### sin tok kâi phàu-thâi;

    the newly made fort.
* 琢tok82968

#### To work in gems;

    to cut precious stones.

#### khuaⁿ nē tio khuaⁿ nē tok;

    slowly cut and polish.

#### gêk put tok cū put sêng khì;

    an unwrought gem is of no use. ​
* 獨tôk9219413
* Solitary, alone, isolated, by one's self; widowed or childless; left alone; one's own consciousness or what is only felt by himself; one of; only; yet.

#### nî lău, bô̤ kíaⁿ, kìe-cò̤ tôk;

    when old and child-less one is said to be lone.

#### tôk mâk;

    one eyed.

#### tôk kha;

    one legged.

#### tôk kha, tôk chíu, cò̤ m̄ lâi;

    cannot do it single handed.

#### tôk kâi phīⁿ khang;

    loss of the dividing cartilage in the nose.

#### tôk ciah hĭⁿ;

    has only one ear.

#### kùa tôk ciah hĭⁿ-kau;

    wears a single earring.

#### tôk-cṳ̆ cêk nâng;

    all by himself.

#### tôk cŏ̤, bô̤ lîo;

    sit alone and without companions.

#### tôk lâk, lâng thî;

    cannot brace it up with only the strength of one individual.

#### tôk ki tṳ̄ cò̤-nî cîah?

    How can one eat with a single chopstick?

#### toaⁿ tôk sĭ i tīaⁿ;

    it is no one but him.

#### tôk-tôk sĭ úa cū àiⁿ;

    I am the only one who wants it.

#### chûn tôk cío;

    my lone self.

#### phah tôk chèng;

    fire a single gun.

#### i pang tn̂g, tôk sĭen, sĭ tăi kùi keh;

    he has square intestines and a single kidney and is a man of extraordinary powers.

#### cŏ̤ tôk khàng;

    sit alone on the divan.

#### tôk-kak;

    solitary, single.
* 逐tôk971627
* To drive or push out; to expel, to order away, to exorcise; out going.

#### kúaⁿ-tôk;

    evict; drive out.

#### tôk chut gūa hng;

    ejected and driven away.

#### íⁿ-keng pun úa tôk tīo khṳ̀;

    has already been ejected by me.

#### i a-pĕ cêng pín-tôk kùe kâi;

    one whom his father has disinherited and turned out of doors.

#### teng-teng tôk-tôk;

    to gad about.

#### cí kâi tī-hng ío cíe teng-tôk;

    there is but little running to and fro in social intercourse here abouts.

#### cí pńg sĭ jîp tôk phŏ;

    this is the memorandum of what is daily brought in and sent out; the day book of a merchant.

#### i sĭ toaⁿ-toaⁿ bōi jît-tôk a sī ŭ bōi thò̤-hùe?

    Does he sell what he daily buys or does he take in and sell on commission?
* 纛tôk92212019
* A large triangular standard carried before a chief; a banner.

#### cì tōa tôk-kî;

    offer sacrifice to the great standard.

#### îaⁿ sang-káng cū îaⁿ kŭa ki tōa tôk-kî chut lâi;

    if people go out in procession with the gods during autumn, they carry out the great banners.
* 瀆tôk9228515
* The hollows in land; used figuratively for the depressions in the face.

#### úa thóiⁿ i kâi sìang-măuⁿ ngâk-tôk hun mêng, lóng-cóng cìe sìeⁿ;

    I see that the heights and hollows of the face are plainly distinguished and all according to the original.

#### i kâi mīn-tîeⁿ ngó-ngâk sì-tôk lóng-cóng bô̤ kô̤ hó̤ hîam;

    his features are all faultless.
* 毒tôk922805
* Venereal disease.

#### pĭen-tôk;

    venereal ulcers.

#### hṳ̂-kháu pĭen-tôk;

    gaping venereal ulcers.
* 凟tôk9221515
* To profane; to desecrate; to treat with contumely.

#### i cìeⁿ-seⁿ sǹg sĭ siet-tôk sîn-mêng;

    doing thus, he may bo considered as having blasphemed the gods.

#### kuaⁿ phoi tàⁿ "bô̤ îong tôk chíaⁿ";

    the magistrate's decision was this "No appeals which are an abuse of privilege will be allowed".