# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/miⁿ
### miⁿmiⁿ

* 瞑miⁿ60010910
* Closed eyes; eyes shut so as not to perceive.

#### mâk hâp miⁿ-miⁿ, tīam-tīam gût;

    shut the eyes tightly, and sleep soundly.

#### i sí lío mâk hâp m̄ miⁿ;

    after he was dead, his eyes would not remain closed.
* 靡míⁿ59117511
* Not; without.

#### i míⁿ sṳ̄ put ûi, i àiⁿ ŭ lĭ tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;

    there is no sort of business he will not do, he cares only for profit.

#### thiⁿ mĕng míⁿ sîeⁿ;

    the decrees of heaven are not unvarying.
* 棉mîⁿ594758
* The cotton plant.

#### mîⁿ hue;

    raw cotton.

#### khṳ̀ mâh-mîⁿ chīu kha kò̤ tô̤h mâh-mîⁿ, lâi jîp tĭen;

    go under the cotton tree and gather some cotton to stuff a cushion with.

#### mîⁿ phŭe;

    a thick cotton coverlet.

#### phah phŭe mîⁿ;

    to bow-string cotton for coverlets.

#### sĭang-hái mîⁿ;

    Shanghai cotton.

#### îeⁿ mîⁿ;

    foreign cotton.

#### mîⁿ tō̤;

    a cotton-bale.

#### mîⁿ se;

    cotton yarn.

#### pháng mîⁿ-seⁿ kâi chia;

    a spinning-wheel.
* 迷mîⁿ5891626
* To delude; to bewitch; to fascinate; infatuated; blinded; stupefied; besotted.

#### pun kúi mîⁿ tîeh;

    possessed by a demon.

#### hun mîⁿ; hun-hun mîⁿ-mîⁿ;

    bewildered; infatuated; confused.

#### pun i mîⁿ khṳ̀;

    bewitched by her.

#### mîⁿ-sit lō-thû;

    lost his way.

#### i cong-kú cip mîⁿ, m̄ ngŏ̤;

    he holds persistently to that which possesses him, and will not shake it off; he is stolidly and willfully dull.

#### khṳt mîⁿ-hun kúi khang khṳ̀ sak thô;

    was lead away by a demon ​that blinds and enchants people, and had the orifices of his head all stopped up with clay.
* 糜mîⁿ59011911
* Soft, pulpy,

#### pû kàu mîⁿ-mîⁿ;

    boil it toa pulp.

#### lṳ́ kâi mûeⁿ àiⁿ pû mîⁿ a pû khīu?

    Do you want your congee boiled much or little?

#### mîⁿ-nūaⁿ;

    rotten.

#### cêk sin mîⁿ-mîⁿ nūaⁿ-nūaⁿ;

    his body is one mass of corruption.

#### mîⁿ kha-lîam;

    a decayed shin.
* 緜mîⁿ5931208
* Flocculent; cottony; fluffy; flossy; floss.

#### si mîⁿ;

    refuse silk.

#### si mîⁿ phŭe;

    a coverlet stuffed with unspun silk.

#### mîⁿ-îeⁿ;

    sheep.

#### kio mîⁿ pêⁿ-pêⁿ ńng;

    soft as unspun silk.
* 麋mîⁿ5901986
* The short necked deer.

#### mîⁿ jông;

    elk-horns, used in medicine.
* 謎mĭⁿ59114910
* A riddle; an enigma; a conundrum; a puzzle.

#### khui mĭⁿ;

    propound a riddle.

#### phah mīⁿ;

    guess riddles.

#### i tah kŭa kâi mĭⁿ pêⁿ;

    he has set up a platform to propound conundrums from.

#### mĭⁿ tói;

    the solution or answer.

#### chíaⁿ mĭⁿ tói;

    “‘give it up.”

#### cìe i kâi mĭⁿ bûn lâi thóiⁿ, phah lâi to tîeh;

    following out the puzzle as laid down in the written statement, tho solution is correct.

#### phah mĭⁿ àiⁿ ŭ hûeⁿ khìo;

    in conundrums there must be a double meaning in the words.
* 媚mĭⁿ586389
* Smirking, smiling; to speak soft words; to adulate; to flatter; blandishments.

#### i sĭ thíam-mĭⁿ nâng kâi nâng;

    he is a toady.

#### sĭen-kio kâi cū pit-tīaⁿ sĭen-mĭⁿ;

    the haughty are sure to be sycophantic.

#### thóiⁿ tîeh ŭ kâi mĭⁿ îong;

    appears fascinating.
* 麵mīⁿ5951999
* Wheaten flour.

#### mīⁿ-hue; mīⁿ-hún;

    wheaten flour.

#### mīⁿ pau;

    wheaten loaves.

#### mīⁿ tîo;

    vermicelli made from wheaten flour.

#### phah mīⁿ;

    to make flour.

#### oi mīⁿ;

    to grind into flour.