List of Hiligaynon words starting with the letter P - Page 161

A kind of rice-wafers or rice-biscuits. Ang binókbok nga bugás kutáwon sa túbig, ibutáng sa mga dáhon kag pamalamalahón kag ugáling pritóhon; amó iní ang píking. Powdered rice is made into dough, spread on leaves to dry and then fried; the result is píking.

Very tight, close, narrow. Panápton nga pikít. Very tight or closely fitting clothes. (see hugút, pígus, gutúk).

A little, not much; slight, superficial, not deep (of wounds, etc.). (see tikî, diótay).

To adhere, stick to, clot, etc. See píkat, pígkang. (see pilít, dokót).

(English: picnic) Picnic; to go on (for) a picnic. Ipíknik náton iníng mga manók nga binakól. We are going to have these stewed chickens at our picnic. Kon malúyag kamó magpíknik, piknikán lang nínyo ang bakólod dirâ. If you like to go on or for a picnic, picnic there on that hill.

Place of a picnic.

To pinch, grasp or squeeze between thumb and forefinger; a small quantity, a pinch. Piknitá ang íya bútkon. Pinch his arm. Piknitá ang tabákò. Press the tobacco between the finger-tips. Take up a pinch of tobacco. Piknitá siá sa batíis. Pinch his calf. Pinch him in the calf.

(Sp. pico) Pick, pickaxe; picul, a measure of sugar weighing 63,26 kilos.

A children's game in which they have to cross blindfolded or with raised eyes various lines traced on the ground. He who steps on a line loses; to play that game. Nagapíko-or-nagapikohánay ang mga bátà. The children are playing the pico-game. (see pikopákan).

Irascible, irritable, choleric, testy, techy, touchy, getting angry at the slightest provocation. (see madorogsánon, mainakígon, buróka, burakínta, kutóskutós, sietésieté, sanggurút).

A children's game. See píko.

Only partially opened, half-closed, half-open (of eyes). Pikót siá sing matá. His eyes are only half-open. He can hardly-open his eyes,-keep his eyes open.

To close; to patch, mend, sew together torn pieces of cloth, etc. (see pígot, tókap, takóp, pilóng).

Hard, troublous, trying, difficult, distressful. (see malisúd, pigádo, lapígot).

Parrot. (see períko) Also: Having the upper eye-lids wrinkled and shaped somewhat like a parrot's beak (bill). Pikóy siá sing matá. His eye-lids hang over his eyes like a parrot's bill (beak).

To pat, strike, nudge. Pikpiká ang íya likód-or-pikpikí siá sa likód. Pat him on the back.

To tear, rend, etc. See bíkrat, páhak.

Torn, rent.

A measure for sugar. See píko id.

From piíl-to wedge.