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PENANG. 
Buah sagalat 
Buah sawa 
Buat kambu 
Buat som 
Buboh 
Bunga ayer 
Burong 
PENANG 
SINGAPORE. 
buah mantega 
buah sauh 
MALAY. 
butter fruit (Diospyros discolor), 
the chiku. 
.. to take in: to swindle: 
. to look sulky. 
fareh 
bilis 
to place. 
white bait. 
. a well known tune with extempore 
kenek-kenek 
Burong segan 
Chabai 
Chak 
Chak Béngala 
Chak burong 
Chak pipet 
or chak tuli 
Chak raya 
Chak tanah 
Chak uban 
Chakok 
Chalak 
Chamdek 
Chamor 
Champin 
Changkat 
Changkis 
Chapek 
Chapul 
Chapui 
(= chabul) 
Chas 
Chédas 
Chekam 
lada 
pipit 
jélatek 
pipit rumah 
pint tu 
burong 
tempua 
pipit uban 
changkok 
sindir 
sepah 
tohor, chetek 
chantis 
tempang 
numerous verses introducing 
pésan datok nenek i.e. grandpa 
and grandma’s instructions. 
the night-jar, on account of its 
lazy habit of laying its eggs on 
a road without a nest. 
chilis, lada hidup = fresh ; 
lada kéring = dried. 
a sparrow. 
the Java sparrow, a bird of the 
finch tribe. 
the house sparrow. 
a small speckled finch, which is 
fond of padi and takes a lot of 
scaring. 
the weaver bird. 
. the ground lark. 
the white-headed munia. 
a crook, a hook. 
. affection, 
innuendo, sarcasm: to get at a 
- reason indirectly. 
scattered about. 
. a slight flow. 
shallow. 
a scrawl (of handwriting). 
eeuaayey 
getek, kéletah 
chéngkam 
indiscreet chatter and remarks on 
strange subjects in times or 
places of danger, regarded as 
lable to bring down some mis- 
fortune: a loose tongue, mulut 
chaput. 
forward of a girl; fast. 
. lively, strong, recovered as from 
an illness. 
to compress as a flat object 
between finger and thumb. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
