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BOJOT

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~,,i-. bojot. Entangled, knotted-of a piece of
string; beyond disentanglement. Cf. kusut.
Bojot (in Pahang) is also used of the slipping
of the string on a top; C. and S..-. bujor. I. Extension of length relative to
breadth-in curved figures. Bujor lalu lintang patah: the straight get through, those
which fall athwart it are broken (and get
through in pieces); all is fish that comes to
his net. Bujor bulat: elliptical. B. telor:
oval. Lintang b.: diagonal; Cr. Gr., 63; Pel.
Abd., 127; Sh. Sri Bun., 4. B. songsang:
a figure something like two ellipses with their
major axes at right angles to each other.
Muka b.: oval, as opposed to round faced;
Ht. Ind. Meng. Rupa b.: id. Ht. Sh. Kub.
B. sireh: a plant something like the sireh
vine; shaped like the leaf of this plant.
Palas b.: (i) a kind of tree; (2) the fore-mast
platform.
Berbujor jari: to spread out the hands, the
finger of one resting against the corresponding
finger in the other; Sh. Peng., 23.
II. Unlucky; see mujor.
bujang. [Skr. bhujdngga.] The single, as
opposed to the married, state; a person not
actually in the state of matrimony; an unmarried, divorced or widowed person. Mengapa tiyada kahwin, korang baik tinggal bujang:
why don't you marry? It is not well to remain
a bachelor; Ht. Abd., I75. Bukan-kah hilang
kerajaan-mu dan bini-mu tinggal bujang: will
not your empire perish and your wife be
widowed? Ht. Ind. Jaya.
Kalau ta'-dapat bagai di-hati,
Biyar bujang sampai ka-mati:
if one cannot win one's heart's desire it were
well to remain unmarried till death; Prov.
B. bela anak: a widower with a daughter.
B. serong: a bachelor in name only.
B. talang: a childless widower; a lonely
bachelor.
Balai perbujangan: a caravanserai or resthouse for passing strangers (according to Pijnappel). Pebujangan: a bridal bed, a state bed
(according to Klinkert.) Neither translation
meets all cases and the expression is not in
colloquial use. It occurs: (balai pebujangan.)

Ht. Koris; (ttmpat-nya pebujangan raja) Ht.
Jay. Lengg.; (lanchang mas pebujangan ) Sej.
Mal., 38; (bermain pebujangan) Ht. Ism. Yat.,
56.

j$.f~. bujok. I. Coaxing; wheedling; calming;
allaying annoyance or irritation with tender
language; soothing; - of a lover assuring his
mistress of his affection (Ht. Sg. Samb.), or
of a person calming a crying child (Ht. Abd.,
I5), or of an old nurse soothing an excited girl
(Ht. Sg. Samb.).
Membujok: to calm, to soothe, to allay vexation or distress; Marsd. Gr., 2o9; Ht. Gul.
Bak., I29, I30.
Also pujok.
II. A large aruwan fish; a mudfish of relatively large size, Sh. Ik. Trub., i;= scolopsis
ciliatus?
Saperti bujok lepas dari bubu: like a bujok fish
escaped from a fish-trap; making off at full
speed; J. S. A. S., II., 145.
J.o. bujal. Projection outwards (of the navel).
Cf. bonjol and benjol.
fix bujam. A pouch of ingkguwang leaves; a
sack something like a karong but of very small
size..j. bochor. Leakiness; leaking through several
small crevices; leaky, as a boat; not watertight, of a roof. Cf. bobos (which refers to
one big hole or leak), and tiris.
Bochor-bachir: very leaky, always running
(used of a person suffering from looseness of
the bowels); Sh. Panj. Sg.
Membunoh b.: to stop a leak. Mulut b.: a
babbler; a man who cannot keep anything to
himself.
' bochong. An earthenware vessel shaped
something like an hour-glass, i.e. narrow in
the centre.
B. telor buwaya: a variety of this vessel; a
bottle with a rounded bottom, so that it does
not easily stand erect.
->~ bochak. Mouldy, decayed, rotten; K1.
> bochok. A sort of awning suspended over a
child's cradle; Pijn.
buchuk. I. A protuberance or knot on an
old tree trunk; cf. buku.
II. Ikan buchuk: a fish, scolopsis ciliatus.,-. buchu. A slight projection or projecting
point; a corner or angle. Pada tiyap-tiyap
satu buchu satu papan: a plank at each corner;
Muj., I8.

a4o- bochah. Jav. A boy or girl; = budak, q. v.

I bujing. A tree (unidentified).

bodtok. Eng. A gaff, a boat-hook.

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