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MABANAS - maalinsangan (humid)
MABANG-E - mabaho (stench)
MABUHAY - refers to banca that sails
unevenly
MAKINA - (syn) kiskisan; rice mill
MAGASO - malikot, hindi mapakali
MAGPABAYO - bring palay to the 'makina'
for milling
MAGSANGI - (syn) magsuklay; comb
one's hair
MAGULANG - (syn) maraya; dishonest
MALINTOG - (syn) hinog na hinog;
also, mataba
MALMA - plentiful, abundant
MALUTO - (syn) baon; brown bagging
(usually rice/fish wrapped in banana leaf)
MARAKULYO - (syn) matigas ang ulo;
hard-headed, stubborn
MASUGER - persistent, matanong<BR>
MAWIDWID - hard to please
MAYANAT - sugarcane candy
MAYATBANG - tuber with sticky white
consistgency; similar to casava
MINUKMOK - powdered fried corn grain
MIRA - extreme degree, e.g. "Mirang
gandang babaye." "Mirang ramot."
MOTONG - when you lose the game,
your opponent tries to hit your marble from a designated short distance,
and you prevent his marble from going astray by using your twined fingers
knuckleside facing the bullet- like marble. The stronger the cracking
sound, the more painful, "ummph, motong!”
MULUMOR - (syn) bulong; very low
whispering to oneself
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NABANLIKAN - bested by a rival suitor
in courtship
NAKAHAMYA - (syn) nakalatag; spread
out
NAKA-IIYAMOT - nakayayamot<BR>
NAKATINGARGAR - not level; tilted
backwards
NAGSIDIRA - colloquially refers to
a couple who separated temporarily
NAG-U-URUR/ NAGSUSURSOR - nagi-is-es,
naglilinis ng pakayor
NAMAMALANG- HUTAY - Feeling weak;
tired
NANGI-NGIPALPAL - (syn) namumugigi,
limahir; very dirty as in clothes
NAPATISAN - gagambang nasugatan
NSASALUBSUB - wounded by a
splinter with the splinter still in the
wound
NASUBYANG - usually a footwound caused
by a sharp twig (siit)
NATIPAL-OK/ NATI-OK - twisted one's
foot or ankle
NAUSOG - nabalis
NGA-NGA - (syn) bunga; betel nut
NGIRNGIR - (syn) gilagir; gum
NGUY-NGUY - (syn) iyak; uncontrolled
sob
NILABTEK - whipped lightly
NIRUG-AN - (syn) dinuguan
