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- swift current; rapids
- (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled; proficient; (of movements) quick; speedy
- (bound form) rain runoff from a roof
- (bound form) roof gutter
- classifier for rows, lines etc
- surroundings; neighborhood
- (dialect) to practice
- (dialect) to plaster; to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc)
- (dialect) quickly; briskly; without delay (northern colloquialism, often used in commands)
Trad. 溜邊
- to keep to the edge (of path, river etc)
- fig. to keep out of trouble
- to avoid getting involved
- whirling
- spinning around and around
- round and plump (e.g. of fruit)
- dull gray
- gloomy
- dejected
- crestfallen
- with one's tail between one's legs
Trad. 一溜煙
- like a wisp of smoke
- (to disappear etc) in an instant
Trad. 溜邊兒
- to keep to the edge (of path, river etc)
- (fig.) to keep out of trouble; to avoid getting involved
Trad. 順口溜
- popular piece of doggerel
- common phrase repeated as a jingle
Trad. 酸不溜丟
- sour
- acrid
- (of a person) embittered
Trad. 灰不溜丟
- gloomy and dull (idiom)
- boring and gray
- unpleasantly murky
Trad. 溜鬚拍馬
- to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants
- to toady
- boot-licking
Trad. 糟溜黃魚片
- stir-fried yellow fish filet