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chuwali. (Kawi.) Excepting; saving; exclusive of; making exceptions; with some
exceptions. Kechuwali: id.-the usual form;
Ht. Abd., 4, 24, I39; Marsd. Gr., 211, Pel.
Abd., IOI; J. I. A., I., 82. Kechuwali kebanyakan: many; most, but I make exceptions.
Tabek kechuwali: saving your presence;
saving the presence of some of you; present
company always excepted.
Enche' Ali orang Se'marang
Singgah berulam puchok ketapang;
Tabek chuwali muda sekarang
Mulut-nya manis lidah berchabang:
saving your presence, the young men of to-day
have honeyed mouths and serpent-tongues,
i. e., are pleasant-spoken but insincere.

^<- chobar. Torn; rent down the middle.
Chobar-chabir: tattered and torn; cf. chabir,
chobak, chabek, etc.
y,' - chobis. A long chip knocked off the edge of
anything, e. g., a splinter from the edge of a
table.,. chobak. Ch.-chabek: tattered or torn at the
edge; cf. robak-rabek.
Orang Padang [aIl berempat,
C hobak-chabek tepi kain-nya;
Sudah hilang, mana-kan dapat,
Chari lain akan ganti-nya:
four men of Padang passed by with the edge
of their sarongs all tattered.

j.T chuwani. A kind of cloth; Sh. Panj. Sg..-~ choba or chuba. Test; testing; the act or
process of trying or testing. Perchaya-lah iya
akandiya dengan tiyada di-choba-nya iya-kah
atau tidak: they believe it without testing
whether it is so or not; Ht. Abd., 4.
Chobai: to hold a test, to make a trial; Ht.
Gul. Bak., 47. MAnlchoba: id.; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 20. Meichobai: id.; Ht. Gul. Bak., 8,
iI5.
Chobakan: to test, to put to the test, to try;
Sh. Sg. Kanch., 34. AIMnchobakan: id.; Ht.
Abd., 205.
Penchoba: a trial or test; Sh. Bur. Nuri, i6.
In colloquial language, choba is used in the
sense of "just," " please," " kindly." Choba
tanya kapada guru-nya it: just ask that teacher
of their's; Ht. Abd., 94. Choba-lah tuwan sendiri pergi bandingkan tulisan sehaya itu dengan
kitab Kdinais iteu: will you kindly compare what
I have written with (the spelling adopted in)
that dictionary; Ht. Abd., I5I.
chubit. Pinching; pressure between finger
and thumb. Di-chubit paha kanan, kiri pun
sakit juga: the right thigh is pinched and the
left also feels the pain; punish one member of
a family and the others will also suffer; Prov.,
J. S. A. S., I., 98. Buwaiyan pun di-gonchang
anak pun di-chubit; to rock the cradle while
pinching the child; to do a bad turn under
cover of a kindness; Prov., J. S. A. S., XI.,
43 -ieInchutbit or menlyubit (Ht. Ind. Nata): to
pinch.
Chubit is confined in use to a pinch, holding
a fair amount of flesh, not merely nipping a
little flesh, whether between finger and
thumb (getil) or between the thumb and
finger-nails (seliseh), nor is it used of mere
painless pressure as in massage (pichit), nor
of a pinch which includes a simultaneous
pull (chengkanm) or twist (piyat). Cf. also
chobek, sepit, getu, kepit, tindas, pejam and apit..j >chobek. I. A pinch, in the sense of a pinch
of snuff or of tobacco, or as a small quantity
of food picked up between the finger and
thumb and put into the mouth to test the
taste; cf. chubit.
II. An earthenware saucer for samtbal.
o choban or chuban. A kind of needle of
horn or bamboo used in repairing nets or in
working with gold thread.
1-.. chuwat. Projecting; stretching out to a
point; erecting itself; the motion of projection or erection in contradistinction to the
position when erect.
OP-. chuwit. I. A playful tap or blow with the
finger; a touch with the finger, not to give
pain but to attract attention silently; a signal
with the finger signifying " go away"; to
jerk the tail aimlessly up and down, of a
bird; to wander about doing nothing; Sh.
Kumb. Chumb., 17; J. S. A. S., III., 37.
II. A gathering under the finger-nail... chotet. The projection of the extreme point
only; sticking out the end or tip.
chutap. A shiny black waist-buckle.
chotek. Sa-chotek: a small portion, a crumb
or infinitesimal fragment. Kerja berchotekchotek: to work in driblets.
chotok. I. The small comb or fleshy
protuberance found on the upper part of the
beak where the beak begins to project from
the skull.
II. Projecting above the surface, of a low
flat rock.
chutam. An amalgam of iron, gold and
l silver.
J '-. chuti. [Hind. chhutti.] Leave; leave of
absence.

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