# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/khu
### khukhu

* 驅khu44318711
* To drive on; to urge; to force; to lash on.

#### khu sîaⁿ tôk mût;

    to dispel noxious influences.

#### tī-tîang khu-sái lṳ́ lâi?

    Who urged you into coming?

#### khu piaⁿ côiⁿ-cìn;

    urge the troops forward.

#### khu kàu i m̄ káⁿ lâi;

    worked upon his fears so that he did not come.

#### i ŏi khu sîn hîah kúi;

    he can animate the gods, and detain the demons.

#### khu cêk kâi kúi chut lâi teng-tùe;

    forced a demon to come out and attend upon him.

#### khu huang;

    expel the wind.

#### khu sip;

    expel bad humors.
* 坵khu416325
* A classifier of parcels of land.

#### cêk khu châng;

    a field.

#### cí cêk khu hn̂g cū khuah;

    this garden plot is wide.

#### cí khu tī tǹg nâng ŭ nŏ̤ saⁿ khu khuah;

    this piece of ground is three or four times as wide as theirs.

#### in cí-kò̤ kâi chang-khu ío ôih;

    their fields here are narrower.

#### kek piah khu;

    the adjoining lot.

#### i nŏ̤ nâng tó̤ teh kha-khu;

    the two are playing draughts.
* 拘khu438645
* To restrain; to moderate; bigoted; to grasp so as to detain.

#### put khu ke cíe to hó̤;

    whether more or less is no matter.

#### m̄ khu tōa sòi úa lóng-cóng àiⁿ;

    whether large or small I want all of them.

#### míen khu tīaⁿ tī cêk jît;

    need not fix any particular day.

#### màiⁿ khu lói-sìo;

    do not be formal.

#### i kâi nâng khah khu-cip;

    he is too set in his own way.

#### cò̤ sṳ̄ khah khu-nĭ;

    acts too willfully.

#### cē bô̤ nâng khu-sok cū thèng cò̤;

    whenever be is without some one to restain him he acts recklessly.

#### thek che khu kìu;

    send constables to seize and examine.
* 軀khu44315811
* The body, the person.

#### i kâi sin-khu ío kûiⁿ-tōa;

    he is rather tall and stout.

#### i kâi sin-khu ío ói sòi;

    he is rather short and small.
* 區khu442239
* To assign a place for.

#### úa cṳ̆ ŭ khu-chú;

    I have a good plan for it.

#### khu-pîet mêng-pêh;

    discriminate clearly.
* 蹲khû102115712
* To sit on the heels; to squat.

#### khû lô̤h khṳ̀, tô̤h khí lâi;

    squat down and pick it up.

#### i khû tó̤ hṳ́-kò̤, táng i;

    he is squatting there waiting for him.
* 臼khŭ4141340
* A mortar; a socket.

#### cía bí sĭ ceng hue khŭ kâi a sĭ ceng cîeh khŭ kâi;

    was this rice pounded in a chunan mortar or in a stone mortar?

#### khŭ sói cheng-khih lío khṳt i lā: ùaⁿ cē àiⁿ ceng kùe;

    wash the mortar clean and let it dry in the air: after a little while I am going to pound up the ingredients for a cake.

#### khŭ-kíaⁿ;

    a small mortar.

#### îeh-khŭ;

    a mortar for triturating medicines.

#### ci kâi mn̂g-kha-khŭ tîeh ūaⁿ;

    the socket in which this door turns must be renewed.

#### hṳ́ ki khŭ-kíaⁿ-thûi m̄-kìⁿ-khṳ̀;

    the pestle to this little mortar is missing.

#### kha kut pûah chut khŭ;

    he fell and dislocated his thigh bone.

#### i kâi chíu cò̤-nî ŏi chut khŭ?

    How did he dislocate his shoulder joint?

#### nín cêk jît sio ŭ jîeh cōi khŭ bí?

    How many mortars full of rice do you consume in a day?

#### thang-îu-hue khŭ;

    a mortar used in making putty.

#### sṳ̄ to m̄ kui khŭ;

    the matter does not take a manageable shape.

#### cí kâi tûi m̄ kah cí kâi khŭ;

    this pounder does not fit this mortar.

#### cò̤ cêk khŭ khah tĭⁿ, tîeh cò̤ nŏ̤ khŭ ceng;

    there is too much for one pounding, you must make two of it.

#### mn̂g-tŏiⁿ khŭ;

    sockets in a doorsill, for bars to stand in.