LAMUY
LAMUY is a Cebuano word. In English, it means...
lamuy v {1} [A; a] take in s.t.
by swallowing.
Maglamuy kug tablítas pára katúlug, Ill take some sleeping pills.
Gilamuy si Hunas sa balyína, Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
{1a} eat greedily or gluttonously (coarse).
À, milakaw man lang dáyun human makalamuy, After he gorged himself, he immediately left the party.
{1b} sa bakunáwa ang búwan [a12] for there to be a lunar eclipse (for the moon to have been swallowed by the bakunáwa).
{2} [A; a2] swallow words or feelings.
Milamuy ka lang dáyun sa íyang gisulti, You swallowed his story, hook, line, and sinker.
Gilamuy ku ang ákung kasukù arun way masilù, I just swallowed my anger so that nobody would have hard feel-ings.
{3} swallowed up in a figurative sense.
Galastúhan nga milamuy sa ílang tinipígan, The expenses which swallowed up their savings.
Gilamuy siya sa kangitngit, He was swallowed by the darkness.
n food consumption.
Ang ámung mutsatsu dakug lamuy, Our servant eats too much.
walay poor as a church mouse (deprecatory).
-in-an n manner of eating.
by swallowing.
Maglamuy kug tablítas pára katúlug, Ill take some sleeping pills.
Gilamuy si Hunas sa balyína, Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
{1a} eat greedily or gluttonously (coarse).
À, milakaw man lang dáyun human makalamuy, After he gorged himself, he immediately left the party.
{1b} sa bakunáwa ang búwan [a12] for there to be a lunar eclipse (for the moon to have been swallowed by the bakunáwa).
{2} [A; a2] swallow words or feelings.
Milamuy ka lang dáyun sa íyang gisulti, You swallowed his story, hook, line, and sinker.
Gilamuy ku ang ákung kasukù arun way masilù, I just swallowed my anger so that nobody would have hard feel-ings.
{3} swallowed up in a figurative sense.
Galastúhan nga milamuy sa ílang tinipígan, The expenses which swallowed up their savings.
Gilamuy siya sa kangitngit, He was swallowed by the darkness.
n food consumption.
Ang ámung mutsatsu dakug lamuy, Our servant eats too much.
walay poor as a church mouse (deprecatory).
-in-an n manner of eating.