greedy, selfish

Zorc 1969

gather up with cupped hands, as spilt beans

Reid 1976, Reid p.c.

pick up (as to pick up rice, salt, sand by cupping it in your hands, or to pick up a pile of clothing or trash in your arms

Headland and Headland 1974

monopolize a job, possession, or enjoyment of something

Wolff 1972

small pincers used for plucking

Manik 1977

catch, capture, be caught or captured

Pateda 1977

handful, as of rice grains

Conklin 1953, Reid p.c.

scoop out a liquid or solid with the two hands cupped together

Batad

Lambrecht 1978

act of scooping out things (e.g. pounded rice, beans) with one's two hands joined

Lambrecht 1978

gather, collect. With both hands, two brooms, etc., as dirt

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

catch birds in their nest, at night

Vanoverbergh 1972

to catch

Vanoverbergh 1972

gather up in both hands cupped together

Tharp and Natividad 1976

one (great) handful; one (small) armful. A quantity that can be taken up with both hands

Vanoverbergh 1933

with hands cupped; two hands full

Galvin 1967

scoop with both hands

Galvin 1967

take something

Walker 1975,1976

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

Wilkinson 1959

scoop with both hands

McKaughan and Macaraya 1967

two handfuls

McKaughan and Macaraya 1967

scoop up with the two cupped hands

Hardeland 1859

small pincers or tweezers used to extract facial hair

Hardeland 1859

pincers or tongs

Zoetmulder 1982

get with both hands

Benton 1971

the contents of one's two cupped hands; try to get all for oneself

Schlegel 1971, Reid p.c.