# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/mong
### móngmóng

* 某móng588755
* Used for a certain person or thing when the name is unknown, or when respect or caution forbids its use.

#### móng nâng tŏ̤ mē?

    Is a certain person there? ​àiⁿ khṳ̀ móng kò̤;
    want to go to a certain place.

#### móng jît, móng nî;

    a certain day and year.

#### móng mûeh;

    a certain thing.
* 懵懂móng-tóng610
* Dull, not intelligent.

#### móng-móng tóng-tóng, mih sṳ̄ m̄ pat;

    he is exceedingly dull, and does not know anything.

#### móng-tóng căi, to m̄ khui khìo;

    very stupid, and seems to have no use of his faculties.
* 貿mòng5891545
* To barter; to exchange.

#### mòng-êk;

    to do business; to trade; to carry on commerce; interchange of articles.

#### mòng-êk kong phêng;

    a fair exchange.

#### to sĭ lâi tŏ̤ cí kâi po-thâu tèng mòng-êk;

    always comes to this mart to buy and sell.
* 朦mông6097414
* The moon about to set.

#### gûeh mông-mông;

    the moon is dim.

#### gûeh sek mông-lông;

    the moon looks hazy.

#### mông-mông lông-lông, thóiⁿ m̄ hīn;

    very hazy, so that one cannot see distinctly.
* 謀mông5871499
* A stratagem, a device, an artifice; to plot; to contrive, to plan; to deliberate; to obtain.

#### mông hāi;

    to plot against.

#### kòi-mông;

    scheme.

#### i àm-cĕⁿ mông hẃn;

    he secretly plotted rebellion.

#### mông sṳ̄ tŏ̤ nâng, sêng sṳ̄ tŏ̤ thiⁿ;

    man proposes, but heaven disposes.

#### cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ lâi mông-ûi kàu sêng;

    let us plan for this till it is accomplished.

#### cía cîⁿ sĭ úa kio i thòi mông-ûi kâi;

    this money is some that I contrived to obtain for him.

#### mông châi kù suah; mông châi hāi mīaⁿ;

    murder for the sake of gain.

#### mông suah;

    to plot murder.

#### sĭ i tó̤ cò̤ mông-cú;

    he was the contriver of the plot.

#### tī-tîang cú-mông?

    Who contrived it?

#### mîaⁿ-ke kâi mông-sṳ̆;

    clever advisers.

#### ŭ íong bô̤ mông;

    has courage without cunning.

#### mông seⁿ;

    contrive to get a living.

#### cí kâi nâng sĭm ŭ mông-lîak;

    this is a man of many devices.
* 蒙mông60814010
* Ignorant; to behave rather rudely; an affected term for thankful, grateful for favors; a pupil; a
child.

#### thông-mông;

    a lad.

#### mông-kó nâng;

    Mongols, said to be an imitation of moengel, celestial.

#### to̤ mông lṳ́ àiⁿ-sieh;

    many thanks for your kindness.

#### mông chú;

    am obliged to you for your custom, (a shopman’s phrase).

#### mông-hŭn;

    confused in mind.

#### mông-mŭeⁿ;

    ignorant; not enlightened.
* 濛mông6083514
* Fine drizzling rain with fog.

#### hŏ mông-mông;

    misty rain.

#### kâi thiⁿ mông-mông, cn̂g kâi sĭ hŏ;

    the sky is thick with fine rain.
* 矇mông60910914
* Dim sighted; unable to see from age; indistinct vision, from disease of the nerve, as in amaurosis.

#### mâk mông-mông;

    unable to perceive objects clearly.

#### cùi-ngán mông-lông, thóiⁿ m̄ tīaⁿ;

    seeing double, as through intoxication.
* 摸mông6036411
* To feel for or after; to feel around.

#### mông m̄ tîeh;

    I cannot get hold of it.

#### chíu m̄ hó̤ mông;

    do not lay hands on it.

#### àiⁿ mông i kâi thâu khak cĭu sĭ;

    he wants his bead, that is it.

#### cē so̤-mông i, i cū huaⁿ-hí;

    he is pleased when one strokes him.
* 礞mông60911214

#### mông-cîeh;

    a shaly bole, a micaceous schist of a fine quality prescribed in cases of derangement or fits.

#### ēng mông-cîeh lâi kún tīo i kâi thâm;

    use this micaceous schist to break up the phlegm.
* 舞mŏng10621368
* To flourish the limbs.

#### mŏng kìam;

    fencing.

#### mŏng thûi;

    to brandish a mallet.

#### mŏng to̤;

    to flourish a knife.

#### mŏng thûi hue;

    to perform with a club.

#### mŏng tîn-pâi;

    to fence with a shield.

#### kha tâh, chíu mŏng;

    to perform as a harlequin; to stamp the feet and flourish the hands.

#### mŏng kàu hêk;

    made postures until he was tired.
* 茂mŏng5891405

#### mŏng-sĕng;

    luxuriant.

#### chīu-bâk mŏng-sĕng;

    the shrubbery is thick and green.

#### cí câng hue khui lâi mŏng-sĕng căi;

    this plant is blossoming very luxuriantly.