Saturday 2 November 2013

poi1siah4 批削

poi1siah4 批削 is one of our Teochew words which means to make deletions, amendments, corrections to essays or any written work.

In Zhang XiaoShan's dictionary,  it gives an example of use

paing1bhung5 keh4 i1 poi1siah4 gao3 cung5 bho5 diam2gian2

篇文乞伊批削到存無點囝

篇文 piang1bhung5 is wen2zhang1 文章 in Mandarin which means essay, articles or other written work

乞伊 give him

批削 see above 

到 gao3 until

存無點囝 cung5 bho5 diam2gian2 - little is left

The Mandarin sentence of the above given by Zhang XiaoShan is

文章被他砍得只剩一點點

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