# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ngan
### nganngan

* 昂ngan2724
* To rise higher and higher; grand; imposing; high, as in price.

#### mûeh kè ti ngan;

    the prices of articles vary.

#### cì-khì ngan-ngan;

    self possessed.

#### tàⁿ ūe màiⁿ khah kek ngan;

    in speaking do not say what offends one's self-love.
* 眼ngán10861096
* The eye; marks resembling an eye; an opening.

#### i kâi ngán-sîn hó̤;

    the expression of his eye is good.

#### ŭ ngán bô̤ cū;

    he has eyes without lenses; he is not discriminating as to the merits of persons.

#### i hó̤ ngán lâk;

    he judges things at a glance.

#### thóiⁿ i m̄ tŏ̤ ngán kài;

    kept no impression of him in mind.

#### ngán côiⁿ ŭ sṳ̄ mē?

    Have you any immediate business?

#### tèng pá-ngán;

    stand the next to the senior wrangler in the cìn-sṳ̆ examination.

#### i cêk sang hó̤ ngán-mâk;

    he has a fine pair of eyes.

#### cūaⁿ jîn bô̤ kùi ngán;

    low people have not valuable eyes.

#### khṳ̀ tàu cêk kâi sìⁿ ngán;

    go and get a pivot put in the end of the fan.

#### ka-to̤ ngán khah siap, ēng îu buah i kût cē;

    the pivot of the shears is so tight that the blades move with much friction, take some oil and oil it.

#### chŵn cîah cêk sang bâi ngán;

    his beauty lies wholly in his eyes.

#### i nŏ̤ nâng bâi lâi ngán khṳ̀;

    the two were exchanging meaning glances.

#### sang ngán hue-lêng;

    a pheasant's feather with two eyes on it.

#### khóng-chieh kâi mô̤ⁿ ŭ ngán;

    peacocks' feathers have eyes.

#### hó̤ ngán tói;

    strong sharp eyes.
* 垛ngán910326
* A target hung near a race course.

#### cìⁿ-ngán-khang;

    openings in the battlement of a wall, for archers to shoot through.
* 淬ngàn1018858
* To temper by plunging in water.

#### ngàn chìu cúi;

    to temper by plunging in cold water.

#### cí īeⁿ kǹg sĭ khṳ̀ ngàn chim kheⁿ kâi kheⁿ cúi;

    this sort of steel is tempered in the water of a deep pit.

#### līen lío khîeh khṳ̀ ngàn cúi, līen lío khîeh khṳ̀ ngàn cúi, ngàn jú ke hûe jú hó̤;

    heat it and plunge it into water, repeating the process, the more times the better.
* 掐ng̀an358648
* To seize with force; to pinch hard.

#### ngàn kàu ŭ ku-ā kâi cńg-kah ūi;

    pinched so as to leave the prints of the nails.

#### lṳ́ kio úa lìam hó̤-hó̤, màiⁿ ngàn tîeh;

    pinch me softly, and not so hard as to hurt.

#### úa hàm i lâi kio úa tĕⁿ pùe-kṳn, kŭa saⁿ khṳt i ngàn phùa khṳ̀;

    I asked him to come and gently pinch the sinews of my back for me, and he pinched so hard as to tear holes in my tunic.
* 冷ngân506155
* Cold; chilly, cool.

#### lā ngân cē;

    let it cool off a little.

#### i kâi chíu ki-ki ngân;

    her hands are cold as ice.

#### mông tîeh kha ngân, chíu ngân;

    his extremities are cold to the touch.

#### thiⁿ-sî ngân;

    the weather is cold.
* 言ngân10831490
* A word; a sentence; a remark; an assertion; a phrase; speech, talk, sayings; report, rumor; an order; to discourse, to say, to address, to talk, to express an opinion.

#### nŏ̤ nâng cŏ̤ tó̤ ngân-thâm ngí-lŭn;

    two persons sat chatting together.

#### ngân-gṳ́;

    words, talk.

#### sit ngân;

    a slip of the tongue.

#### hue ngân, khá gṳ́;

    exaggeration, hyperbole.

#### chéⁿ sì kâi lîang ngân;

    a useful and moral allegory.

#### m̄ kẃn nâng ngân sĭ, ngân hui;

    pay no attention to people's gossip.

#### gṳ̄-sṳ́ sĭ ngân-kuaⁿ;

    censors are officials whose duty it is to speak.

#### có̤-sak ngân lō;

    interrupt the conversation.

#### ngân hĕng m̄ hû;

    his words and actions do ​not correspond.

#### cêk ngân cū khó̤-íⁿ lío-kak;

    one word may bring it to an end.

#### cău ngân cău gṳ́;

    a complete fabrication.

#### lêng cai i ngân gūa kâi ì-sṳ̀;

    can understand the implied meaning.

#### cêk ngân lâng cĭn;

    it cannot be told in a word.

#### khá ngûn;

    smooth talk.

#### cía sĭ sĭm ngân khî coi cū sĭ, m̄ sĭ sît kâi;

    this is setting things at their very highest figure, it is not really thus.

#### bô̤ hṳ ngân;

    no empty talk.

#### thiaⁿ lú kaî kim ngân;

    heed your valueable suggestions.

#### màiⁿ to̤ ngân;

    do not have so much talk about it.

#### màiⁿ thiaⁿ i ngân tn̂g ngân tó̤;

    pay no heed to what he says, whether he says much or little.

#### pĕng bô̤ ngân gṳ́; put ngân put gṳ́;

    say nothing at all.
* 雁ngăn10891724
* A wild goose, white and smaller than the common goose; its annual flight determines the seasons.

#### hông ngăn lâi;

    when the wild geese return.

#### ŏi sīa pue ngăn;

    can hit a wild goose on the wing.