father, papa

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water conduit of split #pinaŋ stem

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pickle; preserve in acid

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existence; to be; present; to appertain to; (vulg.) to have

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fennel. Also (specifically) #adas pedas or 'peppery #adas' in contrast to #adas manis ... 'sweet #adas' or aniseed

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younger sibling. Loosely, any young near relative such as a cousin; (affectionately) to a wife by her husband

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be in a sibling relationship

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younger sibling (vocative)

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oh! as an interjection of grief or pain

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oh! as an interjection of grief or pain

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pitting; matching one against the other; getting up a contest. Of any trial of strength or skill, or even of smartness and looks

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guesswork; conjecture; more or less; about; at a venture

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religion

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(specifically) the so-called 'seaweed' from which seaweed-jelly is made; (generally) #agar-agar jelly and things suggesting it such as 'Turkish delight' and gelatine

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sandfly

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a tree: Aporosa maingayi

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interjection expressive of interest and approval

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water; liquid; stream

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freshet; floodwater in motion; the seasonal flooding of the ricefields

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tears

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fresh water (in contrast to salt)

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suasion to action

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invite; press; incite

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'to teach a crocodile to swim' = to waste pains on those who will return evil for good

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a secret magical formula (Java)

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wit; intelligence. Properly 'mind as the organ of thought' (in contrast to #hati or 'mind as the subject of consciousness'); reasoning. In common speech: trick, dodge, stratagem

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wit; intelligence

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to; towards; going towards; about to; shall

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root; root-fibre; creeping or climbing plant; liana

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root; root-fibre; creeping or climbing plant; liana

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a liana, Willughbeia spp.

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Gnetum funiculare

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climbers, Gnetum spp.

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roots such as those of the mangrove that rise out of the mud and then re-enter it

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dexterous; neat or quick in action (Also #Old Javanese #aŋkas 'hasty, hurried, tempestuous; do one's utmost')

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I; me. The pronoun of the first person singular, but used in a double sense: (i) 'myself', used by a superior to an inferior, by an elder to a younger, or between equals talking so familiarly as to ignore etiquette. Also in prayer, (ii) 'my own', i.e. taking responsibility for or answering for

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claim, admit

Sarawak

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mason bee, ichneumon fly: Chalicodoma spp., or Eumenes gracilis

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defeat; being worsted in battle

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mediocre; medium; half-and-half

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half-hearted; in a mild way; of a man who is a poor hater, or lover

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gather fruit by means of a long pole to which a knife or hook is attached

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jungle, forest (used in Java)

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veer, change, shift one's position

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long rolling waves; surge or swell of the sea. In contrast to broken water (#ombak, #gelombaŋ). Of waves "rolling mountain-high"

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booming. Possibly from the sound of the sea

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groove; cutting; furrow. With many varying or local applications: (Johore) the main channel of a stream between the mudbanks on either side; (Pahang) any channel in river or sea, and even a dry torrent-bed if water flows there sometimes; (Kedah) hollow or backwater scooped out by a stream, the main channel being #geloŋ; (Minangkabau) channel, e.g. of relationship, and even of a wife "scooping" money out of her husband; furrow, beaten path made by wild animals

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channels made by maggots in fruit

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groove along horseshoe

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hollow between nostril and center of upper lip

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boat-channel through a swamp

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plough-furrow

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hollow at back of neck

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putting into operation, esp. of practical piety, whether in religious observances or in good works

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defiance

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to challenge

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very; exceedingly; after an adjective it means excess

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purse-net attached to stakes in a tideway or river. The stakes hold its mouth open; the bunt trails away in the current

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ambergris

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true ambergris, believed by scientists to be a morbid secretion derived from the sperm-whale, but by Malays to be produced by fish that have eaten the sap of the #pauh jaŋgi. Prized by Orientals for perfume-making

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noose

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child's first garment; swaddling band

Jakarta

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(lit. 'fetch the liver') loveable

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strap-support; carrying in a loop of rope or band of cloth (of a child in the fold of a sarong slung from the mother's shoulder); straps or ropes passed round a load (#ambinan) swung on a coolie's back, etc.

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furious attack; charge; amuck. Of desperate onslaughts in old romances

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easy, light

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swaddling-band for infant

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holding up from below, esp. in the up-turned palms of the hand

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pardon (of a royal or divine superior showing mercy; forgiveness between equals is #maaf, #mahap, #tabek)

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pardon, apology

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child; young (of animal); native (of a country); one (of a party, set or series); important component part; smaller of two

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lower part of calf-muscle

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adopted child

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followers; tribesmen; clansmen

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foundling

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person of uncertain temperament

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blowpipe dart

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maiden, virgin

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unmarried girl, maiden

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clapper of a bell

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finger

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twin

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uvula

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uvula (lit. ‘child of tongue’)

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born slave

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pupil of the eye

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arrow

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arrow (lit. ‘child of shooting’)

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orphan

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prince

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firstborn child

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a child of incest

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rung of a ladder

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stepchild

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only child

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interest on money

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plaiting; braiding; making mats and baskets or wattled fences; interweaving

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plaiting, braiding, making mats and baskets or wattled fences; interweaving

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white ants; generic for Termitidae

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threat; menace

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harvesting knife (in Java)

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injustice, oppression; wrong inflicted by the strong on the weak

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a dog with clouded markings

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hunting dog

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husk; sheath (of grain). The pieces of dry husk shaken off in the process of winnowing

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to spin. The meaning covers the whole process of spinning. Possibly from a root #kantéh

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hit, get angry with, thrash

Jakarta

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gentle; quiet. Of children who play without disturbing their elders

Jakarta

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wait a moment

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pendent; hanging and swaying (of long objects)

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drop earring. #hantiŋ pendulous

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be drowsy

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knocking up against; (of teeth) to chatter. Of heads butting against one another, a keel hitting a reef, a man colliding

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knocking up against; (of teeth) to chatter. Of heads butting against one another, a keel hitting a reef, a man colliding

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So-and-So-, such-and-such

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thoughts; mind. Of a girl being always in her lover's thoughts ... and conversely of a girl's mind being centered on a man's good looks

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to look carefully at

Jakarta

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current of air; wind; (fig.) windy, of talk

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toy windmill

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whirlwind

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gentle breeze

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lifting up; (fig.) adoption

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expedition; generation (same age group)

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gait, bearing

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a hint or signal (lit. ‘a lift of the eyebrows’)

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pincers, opening and shutting as tongs. Of an animal snapping its jaws, a person nipping with his fingers, a butcher seizing and tearing off the skin of a slaughtered animal

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carrying away piecemeal. Of loading and unloading cargo, transporting water a pail at a time, a mason-bee bringing mud for its nest

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goose

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Ansenna tree: Pterocarpus indicus

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a little at a time, in action or motion

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a little at a time, in action or motion

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what; how; which; somehow. An idiomatic word giving a suggestion of indefiniteness or interrogation -- even contemptuous interrogation -- to the sentence in which it occurs

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any, aught; any whatever

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any; aught; any whatever

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dough-cake; hopper; chupatty (but made of rice-flour, not wheaten flour)

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fire; flame; light (of lighthouse); fiery

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a mangrove-class (Loranthaceae); Avicenna sp., esp. Avicenna officinalis, very bright-colored, almost fiery amid darker neighbors

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opium

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floating on water; driftwood

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floats for nets; fisherman's marks

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direction

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processional progress

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arrack, distilled alcoholic liquor

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coal

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to growl (dog)

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hope; trust

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grinding down; whetting; tooth-filing (the first rough filing is #daboŋ; #asah is the final smoothing with the point of the whetstone)

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stuffing; insertion by force or pressure (of stuffing food into the mouth, beating stones into a roadway, hammering earth to fill up interstices)

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source, origin; proviso or foundation for a statement; provided that

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acid; sour; generic for acid fruits and preparations

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sour fruits and sour preserves for flavoring curries

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gills of fish (Brunei, Sarawak)

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visible vapor; steam; smoke

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fumigate

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afternoon

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lover; impassioned. Of sexual passion, religious ecstasy; over-devoted to some pastime, such as cockfighting

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earnest

Jakarta

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salt; salted

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generic name for Euphorbiaceae of the genera Sauropus, Phylanthus and Breynia

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position over or above

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or

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disposition; regulation; method

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disposition; regulation; method

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sticks laid horizontally in a ricefield to mark the divisions between different types of seedlings

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sticks laid horizontally in a ricefield to mark the divisions between different types of seedlings

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yes, it is so (Brunei, Sarawak)

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body; trunk of body; self; -- whence it is used as a pronoun (I, we, -- connoting a certain kindly superiority or authority; you -- as a pronoun in familiar use; sometimes in kindly speech)

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cloud

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airy interspace between earth and sky

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large bamboo: Dendrocalamus spp. (Java)

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father; sire. More respectful than #bapaʔ

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a cock with a lot of bright yellow in its markings, deemed brave and lucky

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speckled fowl

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pullet

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poultry

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a seedy-looking fowl

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a seedy-looking fowl

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tailless fowl

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ice

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tidal bore

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the water is in commotion

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sea-water

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coconut milk

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fresh water, in contrast to salt

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lets go! Exclamation to incite someone to action

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priapus

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swaying; swinging

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hammock-cradle; swing

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hammock-cradle; swing

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colonial born, creole; a descriptive honorific formerly given to Portuguese gentlemen, colonial-born European, Eurasian and Chinese males to distinguish them from men born in Europe or China; a descriptive name applied specifically to male Straits-born Chinese

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tripe

Jakarta

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dull-witted

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agape, wide open

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dam, barrier against water (Brunei)

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expansion, opening out (of booming out a sail, spreading road-metal over the roadway, a shoal of fish dispersing over a large space, etc.)

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blown quite out of one's course, not merely deflected

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slit open

Brunei

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hog, pig

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dugong, sea-cow

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maid-servant

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wet-nurse

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over-watered, of plants

Jakarta

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chop, cut up, cleave (Java)

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rhinoceros; (sometimes) the tapir (the term covers the larger or one-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus; the smaller two-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sumatrensis; the tapir, Tapirus indicus; the legendary #badak api or #badak mas, a gold-colored rhinoceros of unusual ferocity; the rhinoceros bird (#burong badak), a hornbill

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body

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edible sea-water fish, sp. unid.

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kind, variety, species

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in what way, how?

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too tall or stoutly built; overgrown; clumsy; beyond the regulation size for cockfighting

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a plant: Amorphophallus sp.

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kind; variety; species; as, like

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a title accorded to the Prophet and the four Caliphs, princely personages, Hindu divinities, etc.

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a shrub: Gnetum brunonianum

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fine; handsome

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to mete out; to apportion; to deal (cards)

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good fortune sent by God

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a share

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guffaw loudly

W.Sumatra

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new; fresh; now at last

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broad shoulders

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mother, mother animal

Middle

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good (variant of #baik)

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to strike up (= #gasak 'striking hard; (colloquial) "going for", "clearing out", bolting; (vulgar) sexual intercourse')

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quoin, wedge, of two types: (i) for splitting or widening, (ii) to tighten by filling an interstice, or for regulating the angle of a ploughshare

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shirt, jacket

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banyan-shirt

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coat indicating readiness for duty or that the wearer is on duty; a short coat, tight about the body and tight-sleeved; worn in Java it means that a man is decently dressed (and so available for work), and is not in sarong and singlet

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a coat of bark cloth

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sound of a smack

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(lit. 'burning liver') angry emotion

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mangrove-covered swamp; mangrove tree, specifically of true mangroves (Rhizophorae)

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a bulbous plant grown for its big white ornamental flowers, Crinum asiaticum

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basket; loosely (in #Bazaar Malay) any basket; specifically a large lidded basket of plaited bamboo wicker to be carried on the head, either oblong or cylindrical; if tight-meshed used for storing rice, and if openwork for storing fruit, etc.

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tree sp.: Memecylon myrsinoides

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dispute, argue

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public building, in contrast to a private house

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a tree: Pachychlamys sp.

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dimly seen

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wheal

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banded (in coloring)

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vial; ewer; big-bodied bottle with a long, tapering, narrow neck

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hurling

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projectile

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unnatural or albino whiteness, esp. in a buffalo

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requital, repayment; reply (e.g. to a letter)

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name for trees yielding a particular class of timber used in wharf and bridge building: Shorea, Swintonia, and Parinarium spp.

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pail, galvanized iron bucket

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reversal, going back; on the contrary; turn back

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revolution; circling round a central point

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whirligig; missile hurled by being swung round the head, e.g. a stone attached to a string; bull-roarer

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comb (of cock)

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widowed, i.e. left desolate by death. Cf. #janda (widow or divorcée), a commoner word

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wooden framework (inside a drum; in a howdah, etc.)

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rolling up

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bandaging, enwrapping

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a snapper: Lutjanus spp.

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bamboo, cane (an Indian word, but generally understood)

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a climber, Smilax sp.

Wilkinson 1959

Smilax helferi, the leaves of which are used for poulticing

Pahang

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to thrash, to drub

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a plant name'; = #banar (Smilax sp.)

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impotent

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twin; in duplicate; alike and linked. Of semi-detached houses with a common roof, two yolks in one egg-shell, etc.

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an epiphytic creeper: Dischidia rafflesiana

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an epiphytic creeper: Dischidia rafflesiana

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trade, commerce

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buttress-like projection from a tree trunk

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row, line, file (of ranges of hills; of men or things being in lines of ten, or of a thousand; of forming troups up in lines four or five deep)

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altercation

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brawls of all sorts

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cushion-support; cushion or pillow of European type; pillow-like object

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pillow-like stump of rainbow (regarded as ominous)

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smaller wild ox, Bos sondaicus … of doubtful occurrence in the Peninsula

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dashing against (of threshing rice by beating the stalks against the side of a box, and so knocking off the grain; of striking together, as when waves meet with a splash in the sea)

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dashing against (of threshing rice by beating the stalks against the side of a box, and so knocking off the grain; of striking together, as when waves

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plucking out, of pulling out a hair or a tooth or an arrow from awound, or of uprooting a tree

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fermented coconut water used in dyeing; water in which rice has been washed; water for use as ink, etc.

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putrid, as stagnant water or decaying animal matter

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clamor

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putrid

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name for certain trees: Nauclea spp. or Sarcocephalus spp.

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expanding widely (as the arms of the new moon or a small arc of a very large circle); descriptive of the wide pincers of black forest scorpions (#kala baŋkaŋ), of a crab with pincers far apart (#kətam baŋkaŋ), and of buffalo horns that stand out almost straight (#tandok baŋkaŋ)

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carcass; dead body of animal; of human bodies, contemptuously

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bench; stool; long chair

Wilkinson 1959

race; descent; family; in ancient Malaya of ‘caste’ (still so in Bali)

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temporary structure of wood or atap used as a booth, coolie-house, cooking shed, etc.

Wilkinson 1959

rice pipe; Malay flageolet

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having a vile smell

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risen posture; usual build, bearing or shape; standing outline. In four senses: (i) to resume one's natural attitude after falling down, i.e. to rise, (ii) bearing or shape, (iii) things that stand up against the sky, whether turrets and battlements, or temporary structures such as scaffoldings or platforms for seats, or as an upstanding patch of rainbow, (iv) revival, restoration or resurrection

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father (not as respectful as ayah; less familiar than #pa’; also of persons in a position comparable to that of a father, as stepfather, uncle or father-in-law)

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ember, live coals

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ember, live coal

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abscess (different from #bisul 'external boil')

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a shell, sp. unident.

Wilkinson 1959

thing; stuff; wares; goods

Wilkinson 1959

approximately, more or less

Jakarta

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whatever

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things of all sorts; impediments, the usual things

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perhaps

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West; etym. associated with #ribut, i.e. strong Westerly winds

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southwest

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a carp: Hampala macrolepidota

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veined; marbled; mottled (in tint or shade rather than color)

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straight line

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straight line (as in drawing up troups in line, writing, etc.)

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a sea-shore tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus) of which the bast yields a useful fibre

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bandaging, long wrapper or bandage

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wet; saturated

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cloth worn when bathing

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sopping wet

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bedbug

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hermaphrodite; impotent

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cleaning with water, washing

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cylindrical wrapper of leaf (for sago)

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stem; tree trunk; handle; shaft; long cylindrical part of anything; numeral coefficient for long cylindrical objects such as trees, logs, spars, spears, etc.

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bar at river mouth; boom-barrier across stream

Wilkinson 1959

midday; main course of river

Wilkinson 1959

ridge of nose

Wilkinson 1959

outrigger attachment to a catamaran

Wilkinson 1959

boundary; limit; boundary dyke to a ricefield; rice-plot as shut in by these dykes

Wilkinson 1959

batik cloth

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cough; generic for diseases of which coughing is a distinct feature

Wilkinson 1959

husk and shell of coconut

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stone, rock, boulder, pebble, gem, milestone, mile; anchor; net stones; numeral classifier for teeth

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flint for striking a light

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flintstone

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charcoal

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whetstone

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calculi, gravel in urine

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magnet

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coral rock

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weights used with a balance

Wilkinson 1959

scent; odor (whether pleasant or the reverse)

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beginning to smell badly, e.g. of a carcass

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stench

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hair along the line of the jawbone, feathers under beak

Wilkinson 1959

curving rod; curve

Wilkinson 1959

conveyance in one's own custody or possession; to bring with one

Wilkinson 1959

position under or below, nether side

Wilkinson 1959

to bring

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vague outline, shadow

Wilkinson 1959

payment; fulfilling an obligation or paying a debt

Wilkinson 1959

bag of mengkuang (pandanus leaves) for carrying raw sago (Brunei)

Wilkinson 1959

a tree growing to a height of about 80 feet and yielding a durable timber: Pterospermum spp.

Wilkinson 1959

toll; impost

Wilkinson 1959

dull; doltish; stupid; surly; cross-grained

Wilkinson 1959

stoppage (of a passage); inability to get through

Wilkinson 1959

bewildered movement; flying in and out (as bats)

Wilkinson 1959

band; ligature

Wilkinson 1959

duck (onomatopoetic, from its quacking)

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kingfisher

Kedah

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slushy; mud-patch; puddle

Wilkinson 1959

slushy; mud-patch; puddle. Of bad bits of road after rain; patches of swampy ground to be reclaimed

Wilkinson 1959

slushy; mud-patch; puddle

Wilkinson 1959

distinction, difference

Wilkinson 1959

face-powder; toilet-powder. A cosmetic of rice-flour mixed with a small quantity of other ingredients; kept in powder-form and watered when needed for use

Wilkinson 1959

a tree often mentioned in literature: Zizyphus jujuba

Wilkinson 1959

firearm: heavy guns, small arms of old types, e.g. blunderbusses and matchlocks (modern guns are #senapaŋ), toy-guns of umbrella-tubing

Wilkinson 1959

a rude drum (a hollow cylinder of wood covered at one end only with a buffalo-hide) used for calling people to prayer or for signalling, and not for music. In Java it figures only in the royal #gamelan (#gamelan sekatén) where it is thumped from time to time to indicate the royal character of the orchestra

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curve, bend

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large silurid fish: Belodontichthys dinema

Wilkinson 1959

large silurid fish: Belodontichthys dinema

Wilkinson 1959

foppish, dressed up

Wilkinson 1959

bleat (of goat or sheep)

Wilkinson 1959

stores for a journey, viaticum. Specifically of provisions only, e.g. #ayer bekal (water-supplies for a journey); #beras bekal (rice-supplies). Loosely, of weapons and clothes, and of money for expenses on the way

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bent; opened out (as a fishhook that has let a fish escape)

Wilkinson 1959

trace, mark of what has gone before in two senses: (1) trace, handiwork, (2) former, late

Wilkinson 1959

coagulation. Of liquid becoming viscous or even solid

Wilkinson 1959

the sea-bream: Sparus hasta

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sea bream: Sparus hasta

Wilkinson 1959

blood-offering in the way of self-immolation, propitiation or vengeance; atonement by blood. In old literature, specifically of suttee, of which there were two kinds: (1) #béla suduk (suicide with the kris followed by burning); and (2) #béla keterjunan (throwing oneself alive into the flames of the pyre); in modern speech #bela/ is used (1) of a widow committing suicide when formal suttee is not allowed; (2) of wiping out an injury by an #amok; and (3) of taking lives for a life

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unbleached cotton cloth

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unbleached cotton cloth

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a curved single-edged dagger worn hidden in the sleeve or waistbelt and used for treacherous stabbing

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splitting; cleaving into two; one of two sections or of a pair; side; portion; quarter or direction

Wilkinson 1959

mottled satin-like markings (of the grain of certain woods; of shiny patches left by skin disease; of worn fabrics, etc.)

Wilkinson 1959

back; rear; hind-portion; behind or after

Wilkinson 1959

proboscis; pendent fleshy mass. Of an elephant's trunk, the shorter trunk of a tapir, the pendent upper lip of a rhinoceros, the lobes of a turkey, etc.

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staring; wide-eyed (#mata mem-belalak). Of the fixed look of a short-sighted man; of the stare of a man strangled or choked; of the big mild eyes of an ox; of a man putting a savage look into his eyes like a lion about to charge

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grasshopper; cricket; mantis

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grasshopper; cricket; mantis

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leaf insect: Phyllium spp.

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dusk; twilight; indistinctness

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dusk; twilight; indistinctness

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grey mullet: Mugil spp.

Wilkinson 1959

outlay; disbursement; expenditure

Wilkinson 1959

spring-gun, spring-spear, spring-trap

Wilkinson 1959

banded (in coloring); brightly marked in contrasting colors; having regular markings (used especially of the color patterns on animal skins)

Wilkinson 1959

wide-mouthed cooking pot for cooking vegetables, curries, etc. -- not for boiling rice

Wilkinson 1959

wide-mouthed cooking pot

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to gape

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to gape

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gape

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to ring (of metal falling on stone)

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a component in framing numerals from 11 to 19

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pity; mercy; sympathy

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mercy and compassion

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screen made of rattan strips tied to one another longitudinally; screen-trap for fish. In most of these traps the fish are led by the tide between two converging rows of screens #(bidaŋ belat, #bidai belat) into a trap, usually of several compartments, from the inmost of which there is no escape

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screen made of rattan strips tied to one another longitudinally; screen-trap for fish

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screen made of rattan strips tied to one another longitudinally; screen-trap for fish. In most of these traps the fish are led by the tide between two converging rows of screens (#bidaŋ belat, #bidai belat) into a trap, usually of several compartments, from the inmost of which there is no escape

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screen made of rattan strips tied to one another longitudinally; screen-trap for fish

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large open basket

Brunei

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woodpecker (Sumatra)

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woodpecker

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bamboo spear (used in spring traps)

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velvet

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muddy, slimy

Jakarta

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snipe

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a bird, variously a pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) or a gallinule (Porphyrio polyocephalus)

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fetters; shackles for the feet

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fetters; shackles for the feet

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crooked; bent

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curving, sinuous

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brimstone, sulphur

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brimstone, sulphur

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purchase

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shaman; sorceror or sorceress; touch with the spirit-world

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shaman

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a featherback: Notopterus spp., believed by Malays to have once been a cat and to squall like a cat when caught (so not eaten)

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a featherback: Notopterus spp., believed by Malays to have been a cat and to squall like a cat when caught (so not eaten)

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roll of thread

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scapula, shoulder-blade

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sharp twist or bend in river

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ridged longitudinally

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split bamboo rails for a fence; laying across; cutting off, cutting communications

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adze used by boat builders

Brunei

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restless, fidgety

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restless, fidgety

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coil; curl or hitch (of rope). Of a snake's coils, an elephant's curving trunk, coil of necklace, shawl round neck, lasso when girdling an enemy, winding of river

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adze, small hatchet

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to veer; turn back; to wheel; (nautical) to go about; to luff up; to travel to windward. Of desertion to the enemy; of wheeling one's horse to right and left; of diverting a water-runnel; of a turn of the road, of getting round the skirts of a hill

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pelt; hide; hard skin; sun-dried untanned leather; callosity; corn; hard skin on bullock's neck; (Brunei, Sarawak) skin, leather

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besmeared all over, e.g. with mud as a buffalo after a wallow

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a fruit: Mangifera sp. (Brunei, Sarawak)

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a fruit, Mangifera sp.

Brunei

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a fruit, Mangifera sp.

Sarawak

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a climber: Entada scandens, the hard-skinned fruit of which is used by potters in polishing their wares

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loose, slipping freely off and on (of a ring)

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eel, specifically the common mud-eel: Monopterus albus

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basket-trap for fish; name for certain plants used in basket-making, Clinogyne spp. and Donax spp., esp. Clinogyne dichotoma (#bemban ayer)

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basket-trap for fish; name for certain plants used in basket-making, Clinogyne spp. and Donax spp., esp. Clinogyne dichotoma (#bemban ayer)

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tidal bore; eagre; animal believed by Malays to cause tidal bores

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marrow; brain; quick (of nail)

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immersion in water or mud. Of execution by drowning (in a shallow river) when the victim's head is held under water by a forked stick; in contradistinction to drowning in the deep sea (#laboh di-laut)

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son-in-law, daughter-in-law

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thread

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thread

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drumming or buzzing in the ear

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charcoal line drawn by carpenters to guide their work

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true; in accordance with facts

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confirm, authorize

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mischief-making; trouble, esp. when due to tale-bearing; make mischief

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hate

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thing; article; esp. a thing of value; property, treasure

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flag (of European type)

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flag (of European type)

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cross-beam (from house pillar) supporting the floor of a house; whence the term #bendul yaŋ empat '(the four cross-beams), i.e. the "four walls" of a house within which the owner is master' #masok ka bendul cross the threshold (of a house)

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seed; plant-seed; fig. of illegitimate children as 'planted from no seed, growing from no shoot'

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expansion; spreading out. Of spreading out carpets, stretching nets to dry, pitching tents, etc.

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a tree: generic for Calophyllum spp., of which the timber makes good masts

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a tree: Calophyllum spectabile

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a gallinule

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tearing up and dashing down; e.g. of a Titan tearing out a hill by the roots and dashing it down on the divine warriors, his enemies

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a plant: Wrightia javanica; its light-colored wood is used for making kris sheaths

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interlocking shins; wrestling (in certain games) resting the shin on the calf of the other's leg

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breastwork. Specifically a breastwork or low defensive parapet, e.g. the permanent barbette or battery of thick logs over which a piratical #prahu's guns were trained

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curve, arc; numeral coefficient for rings, hooks, spurs, etc.; of the curve of a horse's hoof, the curve of a girl's body at the waist, curving swords, etc.

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bending; bowing; "giving" under a heavy weight

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bending; bowing; "giving" under a heavy weight

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large expanse of land; empire; continent; mainland in contrast to island. To the old Malays even a large island like Java was a #benua

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a tree: Kayea grandis

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a tree: Sterculia alata. Its very light wood serves to make stoppers for bottles

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a tree: Sterculia alata. Its very light wood serves to make stoppers for bottles

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big, heavily built -- but only in the expressions #kerbau benuaŋ, #rusa benuaŋ

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amazed, dumbfounded

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amazed; dumbfounded

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pant

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temporary dullness of hearing, e.g. after much diving or a stiff dose of quinine

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enlarge (an aperture); widen or lengthen (a sleeve); allow open space between houses; bursting open, of a pod; drumming or buzzing in the ear

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drumming or buzzing in the ear

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very twisted; zigzagging

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pull or twist a person's ear

Jakarta

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catch in the breath

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descriptive adjective for articles introduced via Calcutta (Indian onion, Gossypium vitifolium, pasture grass, potato, castor oil, etc.)

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cruel, heartless, indifferent to the suffering of others

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swollen, inflamed. Of the result of a wasp-sting; of a bunged-up eye; of a boy's face covered with bumps after a fight; of swelling due to deep-seated internal disease; of the results of a caning on the fingers, etc.

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to open out

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a tree: Garcinia sp.

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crooked

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crooked

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plant of which the roots bark gives a red dye, Morinda spp.

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have; rather wealthy, not lacking in means

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strong feeling; passionately in love or excited. Usually of sexual love or love-madness but also of the feelings excited by music, e.g. of people stirred by it to get up and dance, and even of a stimulus such as money-making

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clever, resourceful

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be possessed of children; give birth

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bravery; to dare; to venture

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rising anger; fury; passion

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rising anger, fury, passion

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to clang

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rising anger, fury, passion

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rising anger, fury, passion

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a piratical #prahu furnished with grapnel and boarding-gangways to attack becalmed or anchored ships

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generic for chestnuts and oaks: Quercus spp., Castanopsis spp., Pasania spp.

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sulphide of arsenic; white arsenical oxide (used as rat poison)

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sulphide of arsenic; white arsenical oxide (used as rat poison)

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breezy, airy

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travel with a retinue, to journey (of a prince)

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how much/how many?

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containing fire; producing fire

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in order one behind the other, as driving clouds

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crushed together (of people in a crowd

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parched rice (much used in superstitious rites)

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parched rice (much used in superstitious rites)

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parched rice

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parched rice

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parched rice

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weight; heaviness; fig. of "heavy-footedness", i.e sluggishness; of "heavy-wittedness", i.e. dullness; of "heaviness of the limbs", i.e. weariness; of burdens such as the literal burden of pregnancy

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having a roof

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arranged in order

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arranged in order

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unfortunate, ill-starred

Ulu Pahang

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in various ways; different kinds of; (also) comparable, -- in such expressions as #tiada ber-bagai (Peerless)

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to have a smell

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to cackle (of fowls)

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to wrestle

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be a married man

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be or become so connected

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bear fruit

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to froth

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give out sound

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Indian-file, one after the other

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to foam up, to lather

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behave scandalously toward anyone

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branching

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to evade the issue

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crowding up against one another

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to bleed