# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/lu
### lulu

* 墩lu9273212
* A hummock; a knoll.

#### sua lu;

    sandy knolls.

#### cêk lu cêk lu;

    in hummocks.
* 掙lu30648
* To strike horizontally with the fists; to pommel.

#### khṳt i lu tîeh phiaⁿ-lî;

    was hit in the ribs by him.

#### lu kàu phiaⁿ-lî céng;

    pommelled him till his sides were swollen.
* 鹵lú5561970

#### lú-máng;

    rash; flippant; heedless in act or speech; abrupt and careless.

#### i cò̤ sṳ̄ lú-máng;

    he acts rashly.

#### i to sĭ lú-lú máng-máng, thèng cò̤;

    he is very inconsiderate, and does things at haphazard.
* 屢lu5594411
* Reiterated; repeatedly; often; over and over; again and again.

#### úa lú-lú kio i tàⁿ;

    I have told him repeatedly.

#### i lú-chṳ̀ to bô̤ thiaⁿ úa;

    he has many times disobeyed me.

#### lú chì, lú hāu;

    as often as you try it you will find it serviceable.

#### lú cìen lú sèng;

    as often as you fight you will gain a victory.
* 魯lú5561954
* Stupid; not intelligent.

#### i kâi châi-cieh lú-tŭn;

    his faculties are dull.

#### i sĭ chong-mêng, i sĭ lú-tŭn;

    the one is quick to understand and the other is slow of apprehension.

#### cò̤ sṳ̄ cho-lú, m̄ bûn-ngía;

    does things in a boorish way, not as a cultured person would do them.
* 擄lû5576413
* To take captive; to carry away as a prisoner; to enslave; to kidnap.

#### lû-lîah;

    seize as a prisoner.

#### kò̤ i chíeⁿ-lû;

    enter complaint against him for kidnaping.

#### lû-kìm nâng lío, táng nâng khṳ̀ chíu-sôk;

    keep a person in captivity, expecting some one to go and ransom him.

#### lâm hŭ láu ìuⁿ khṳt i lû kúi câp nâng khṳ̀;

    of the old and young of both sexes, some tens of persons in all were taken away captive by them.
* 臚lû55513016
* To state; to convey orders; to transmit; to arrange in order; to spread out.

#### hong-lû-jī kheng;

    the President of the Court of Ceremonies.

#### lû-lîet kàu mêng-pêh;

    set forth clearly.

#### tíam tîeh thŵn-lû;

    mark off the transmitted orders. ​
* 盧lû5585316
* A booth; a hut; a thatched hovel.

#### cháu lû;

    a straw hut.

#### cho̤ chut mâuⁿ lû;

    his first departure from his attap hut.

#### mō̤ⁿ lû;

    a booth beside a grave.
* 蘆lû55514016
* Water-rushes; hollow stemmed grasses.

#### lû-tîah;

    bulrushes.

#### lû-kùai;

    hellebore.

#### lû-ûi;

    rushes.
* 顱lû55618116
* The skull of a man.

#### sieⁿ tîeh thâu-lû;

    wounded his head.
* 路lŭ5571576
* In mechanics, a space, an extension; a way or opportunity of action.

#### cn̂g kâi bô̤ mn̂g bô̤ lŭ;

    wholly unable to find an opportunity for action; out of work; hedged in.

#### cò̤ lâi m̄ cheng-chó̤, bô̤ mīn bô̤ lŭ;

    it is not a finished piece of work, there is nothing to distinguish the back from the front.
* 賂lŭ5571546
* To bribe; to give a present for the purpose of obtaining help.

#### ĭu-lŭ;

    a bribe.

#### i àm-cèⁿ khṳ̀ lŭ i kâi cîⁿ;

    the money that he secretly went and bribed him with.

#### sai-ĕ sĭu nâng kâi lŭ;

    privately receive a bribe from someone.

#### lŭ i kàu cêk bw̄n ngṳ̂n i cū hàuⁿ;

    if you make him a present of ten thousand dollars he will acquiesce in the arrangement.
* 錞lŭ9251678
* The metal butt of a spear or knife.

#### to̤ pèⁿ hṳ́ tńg kâi lŭ àiⁿ ēng thih kâi a sĭ àiⁿ ēng tâng kâi?

    Do you want the ring which encircles the handle of the knife to be of iron or of brass?

#### lŭ cū sĭ câh-kháu;

    the butt is the metal ring which holds the wooden handle to the steel.