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bongkas or bungkas. The rise of the lower
portion of anything from a nearly horizontal
to a vertical position; e.g., the rise of the root
fibres on a tree being blown down, or the rise
of the buried end of a stake on the stake being
borne over by the current.
bungkus. The rolling up or folding up of anything into a parcel, package or bale; a packet,
a bundle.
Bungkusan: a package. Memnbungkus: to
make up a parcel.
Bungkus bingkis: all kinds of parcels.
Hantu b.: a ghost which returns in its corporeal form, and wearing grave-clothes, to
revisit its old home or haunts; Ht. Abd., I54.
This ghost is so called because it is believed
to be fettered by the bands round the grave
clothes, and to progress by rolling along the
ground like a bundle of bones. Also called
hantu bangkit, hantu golek, and hantu kochong.
Tepong b.: a cake made of tepong jawi, coconut milk and inti.
bangkang. I. Wide apart; stretching out
in opposite directions.
Kala b.: the large black forest scorpion.
Ketam b.: a species of crab.. bengkong. I. The tissue between the leaves
and stem of the sago palm.
II. Crooked. Bengkang b.: v. bengkang
and bengkok. Cf. parang bangkong. Yu b.: a
species of dog-fish; Ht. Raj. Don., 46.
III. A girdle; a kind of long cummerbund;
Sh. Laili Mejn., 26; J. S. A. S., VIII., II4.. bingkang. A cake; = bengkang III, q. v.. bongkang. Stretched out to its full length
and breadth; spread out to its full extent, as
distinct from being huddled up-of a corpse.
Cf. bongkeng.
bongkeng. Lying forward, face downwards,
with knees drawn up-of a dead body, especially of a floating corpse. Cf. bongkang.
k. bongkong. I. B. kayu: a large parasitic
growth on the trunk of a tree.
II. A soft cake wrapped in plantain leaves;
Bint. Tim., 6 March, 1895.

Tandok b.: horns which do not curve in
towards each other; horns the points of which
are very wide apart.
II. Jav. Contradiction; verbal opposition;
unwillingness to acquiesce in what others say.
III. Left unfinished; neglected before completion-of a work. Bangkang is less refined
than bengkalai but less coarse than bengkarak.
bangkeng. A kind of large round lacquered
box for holding clothes and other valuable
property; Ht. Gul. Bak., 4I; Ht. Ind. Meng.
bangking. To fall, as a spear that has missed
its mark; C. and S.
bangkong. Parang b.: a Bugis parang; a
short, broad-bladed knife.
S bengkang. I. B. bengkok; zigzagging; crooked; Ht. Abd., 4, 204, 336. B. bengkong: id.
II. Too small for the purpose for which it
was constructed-of an aperture.
III. A cake or sweetmeat made of tepong
jawi, coco-nut milk, sugar, etc. Also bingkang
and bekang.
bengkeng. Peevishness; irritability; snappishness. A nak sendiri di-sayang; anak tiri dibengkeng: one's own child is loved; one's stepchild is snapped at; Prov.
Bengkengi: to be angry or peevish with; to
snap out angrily at a person; Ht. Si Misk., 80.

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bbngkongkong. A saltwater fish, chrysophrys
calamara. Also bekukong.
b.ngkak. Inflammation; a swelling; swollen.
Lain bengkak lin n zenanah: the abscess was
one thing, the running quite another; he
aimed at one thing and got something quite
different; Prov., Ht. Si Misk., I4I.
B. bakup: swollen-of the eyelids; a black
eye.
B. bengkil: swollen all over; covered with
contusions and swellings, as a boy's face after a
fight; Ht. Abd., 25, 342; Pel. Abd., 43; Ht.
Mar. Mah., 56.
bengkok. Crooked; bent; not straight. Jangan-lah tuwan-tuwan pikir kalau tebu itu bengkok
manisan itu-pun bengkok juga: don't imagine,
gentlemen, because a sugar-cane is crooked
that sweets must also be crooked in shape;
Prov., J. S. A. S., I., 97.
Bengkang b.: zig-zag; not in a straight line;
Ht. Abd., 4, 336.
bongkak. Arrogance; pride; self-assertiveness; overbearing behaviour. Perkataan b.:
overbearing language; Sh. Bid., II5. Terlalu
bongkak pelandok jenaka: this tricky mousedeer
is too arrogant altogether; Sh. Sg. Kanch., I8.
B. pungah: very arrogant; an intensitive
of bongkak; Ht. Jur. Bud., 6; Ht. Fut.
Sh., I63.

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