bikmaus

Tok Pisin: bik + maus.

See first Mihalic entry. See second Mihalic entry. See List discussion. .

Noun forms

  1. Form of talking: shouts, yelling
    yu harim bikmaus bilong ol? do you hear their shouts?

  1. Fauna: a dog’s bark, any animal’s cry
    em i harim bikmaus bilong dok, na em i ronawe he heard the bark of the dog and he ran away

  1. Ocean: the groper, also the rockcod (marine fishes, both family Serranidae)

  1. Hunting: a twelve gauge shotgun ® gan, tumaus

Intransitive verb forms

  1. Form of talking: to shout, to yell, to scream ® singaut
    pait kirap, na ol meri bikmaus i stap a fight started, and the women screamed

  1. Fauna: to bark (of a dog), to cry (any animal) ® singaut
    dok i bikmaus long mipela the dog barked at us

Transitive verb forms

  1. Form of talking: to shout at (rare; possibly obsolete)
    ol manki i bikmausim pukpuk the boys shouted at the crocodile

Verb phrase forms

  1. Form of talking: bikmaus long ai bilong olgeta man to speak on a public occasion (especially New Guinea Highlands) ® lautspika, warkurai

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