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Akboy - things you put on your shirt that serves as container. Kapag ang
laylayan ng damit ay ginawang lagayan.
As-set! or Aset! - derived from the altas, the Akaw expression preferred by
residents of San Luis
Asows or Asos - same as Aho-a or Ho-a, but mostly used on big things
Bulislis - always laughing, even if it's was not funny; palatawa; bungisngis
Da! -(duh) used when asking to have or to see something. i.e. Pahingi Da!
Damsak - nag-putik
Dyableg! - same use as lintik, but preferred by Baler locals; Ang dyableg na
itu ay at lalaban pa.
Ereg - tabingi
Hidhid - sugapa
Isapwal - to throw things away through tthe window or any hole in the house
Kabang - sakang
Kaputod - shorts
Keng-keng - to hop
Kogkog - loser
Lebleb - smothered with tounge. Ex: Yung asu ay nilebleban ni yung kawali.
Log-okin - mahina ang katawan, sakitin, sickly person or animal esp. chicken
Lok-kog - taking off slightly matured coconut meat from its shell using a
knife or spoon
Mag-e - Kumuha, prefix attached to something that you will get. Nilalagay sa
bagay na kukunin mo. Ex: Tara mag-e ibobug.
Maka-otla - nakakasawa
Malag - tanga-tanga
Ngarotngot - the sound of grinding the teeth when asleep Ex: Akaw, kung
matulug iyan na-ngarotngot.
Olabsak - to sit with one's bottom on the ground and with legs spread wide,
nakaupo sa sahig
Om-mog - to smoke a cigar with the lighted end inside the mouth
Palpuk - bonfire, smoky bonfire using coconut husk, used in smoking trees
and smoking out mosquitoes
Pelpel - flat
Peyok - peyokin, to reach and bend a tree branch. Esp. used in getting
guava fruits
Podong - nilalaro ang suso o utong, playing with the breasts or nipples
Rebuk - to muddy a body of water (Si otoy ay, nirebuk na niya yung sapa.)
Repilon - whirl
Sartin - kaserola
Sekalug - tageng-gong
Selaput - sinelaput; eating saucy food with fingers, dipping the finger in
sauce or jams then licking it from the fingers
Serepsep - when you cast an object on the surface river, lake or sea
Siput - siniput, kinalbit ang puwit. Ginagamit kung ikaw ay nasa sakluk ng
bahay, and you want attention, sisiputin mo yung nasa itaas.
Solpot - lumitaw
Tabegok - one leg of another hook to another and together they hop
Tabsung - to dive
Tam-esan - malaki ang mata, originally refers to santol, but now also used in
persons with big eyes
Tampodok - Tampuhin
Tapalang - kabibe
Tayongtong - squat, to sit with two feet and the bottom almost touching the
ground
Udyuk - one being called with an offending name Ex: Inuudyuk niya aku ng
labut!