• Abok-abok - tuyong balat sa braso o katawan, uso pag taglamig; dry skin on the body
• Akot-akot - bahay o pugad ng insekto o bubuyug, yari sa putik
• Adyu - umadyu, umakyat, to climb
• Adyos - bakit, why, or expression of uncertainty
• Akaw! - (uh-cow) a multifunction expression used to express surprise, wonder, disgust, objection; also akin to the English term Wow!
• Akboy - things you put on your shirt that serves as container. Kapag ang laylayan ng damit ay ginawang lagayan.
• Aho-a! or Ho-a! - used to express wonder or surprise; also used as expression in seeing or observing extraordinarily large objects or things.
• Alingating - maliit na langgam na pula, red ants
• Alintodong - telang panakip sa ulo, cloth used to cover one's head
• Anin! - expression used to refer to small or easy things, sinasabi kapag naliliitan o nadadalian sa isang bagay
• Arapaw - umarapaw; get on top, imibabaw
• A're! - (uh-reh) expression used to agree sarcastically or to react negatively or challenge a thought, idea or action
• Ariyonda - umarionda, to ease your time away, means of relaxation and often ends up gossiping
• Arupahup - unethical, untidy. Ex: Napakaarupahup niya, hindi man lamang marunong gumalang
• As-set! or Aset! - derived from the altas, the Akaw expression preferred by residents of San Luis
• Asows or Asos - same as Aho-a or Ho-a, but mostly used on big things
• Atab - lie, to fabricate a story
• Atikha - same as atab
• Atmal - same as atab
• Ates! or Ateys! - used to express disgust or negative reaction
• At Tano? - why, bakit
• At'tilaboy - expression of rejection, ayaw ko. (Now more commonly used as at'tilauy)
• Ay Tikis! - expression meaning talaga!
• Ayud - pag-ugoy sa duyan, to rock the cradle
• Ba’bag - away, gulo, fight
• Badeyo - bayad sa pagtawid sa bangka.
• Balinuknuk - nabali ang leeg, broken neck or stiff neck
• Bangi - mag-ihaw o iihaw, to roast. Specifically applied only to rootcrops like corn or camote. Not applicable to meats.
• Bangul - sobrang batugan o tanga
• Bantaakan - nasa initan, nakabilad sa araw
• Barikungkung - nakabaluktot matulog, sleep in fetal position
• Bartikal - ibinatu ng walang direksyon o basta-basta
• Bayatu - term used for the game patintero
• Be-bel-le - bahay-bahayan, playing house
• Beglat - refers to female masturbation
• Benebens - pang-benebens, Buhangin speak meaning pang-main event
• Bes-sog - matambok, puputok na sa taba
• Binangkid - bangkid, tinaga ng mapurol na bahagi ng itak
• Binesa - walang binesa, walang bisa, talunan, loser
• Biningkit - tuyo, dried fish
• Bok'les - get naked, pag-angat sa palsa o bestida na nasisilip ang panty
• Bol'les or Bel-les - shower using a container to pour water on top of one's head
• Bolog-bolog - lizard like animal about 6 to 12 inches long
• Bongog - bangul, sobrang batugan, tanga
• Bugtak - busug na busug
• Bulastug - bulaan, sinungaling, liar
• Bulagyat - binaligtad ang pilik ng mata
• Bulegyat - binulegyat; binukadkad or scatter
• Buleud - bulaan, liar
• Bulibuli - nasobrahan ng kain, indigested
• Bulislis - always laughing, even if it's was not funny; palatawa; bungisngis
• Bumurayray - tumakbo ng mabilis na mabilis
• Bungelngel - palaiyak, kabaligtaran ng bungisngis
• Bungsuran - entrance, front side, harap ng bahay
• Buntal - suntok, jab
• Burukil - one’s private part, usually man’s
• Buslug - male masturbation, also refers to male's sex organ
• Butayung- gangga-suntok na buko ng niyog
• Butegteg - chubby, matabang bata
• Buyanyanin - payat na malaki ang tiyan, malnourished
• Da! -(duh) used when asking to have or to see something. i.e. Pahingi Da!
• Dagasa - pouring rain or malakas na ulan
• Dalosdos - dausdus, slide
• Damsak - nag-putik
• Dapil - sobrang gutom, very hungry
• Daplag - padapang bumagsak o napadapa
• Dayidi - sobrang lakas ng ulan, very heavy rain
• Dep-pot - dipping a finger in a sauce (Huwag mong dep-potin yang sawsawan)
• Dihamu - or diyamo. Iabot (Dihamu da!), give back
• Diyaski! - an expression of disbelief, disgust and impertinent glib. Ex: Ar-re, ang dyaski ay at nagbubulaan pa!
• Donghe - a gate crasher. Ex: Nariyan na naman si Bandino makikidonghe
• Doprak - spit, lumura
• Dyableg! - same use as lintik, but preferred by Baler locals; Ang dyableg na itu ay at lalaban pa.
• Dumindis - you look like a gnome, or mukhang amas, or homeless with tattered clothes
• Dupelak - naputikan, muddy portion of shirt
• Eh! - no, objection or rejection
• Epuhin - the tube used to blow on a wood stove or kalan
• Ereg - tabingi
• Gangu - hard young coconut, matigas na mura. Murang Querijero
• Gorhet - scratch using pointed object
• Garut - galis, dry wound
• Gos-sok - gutom, sinisikmura, really hungry
• Guregis - gasgas, scratch
• Gurlis - scratch or gasgas
• Gutur-gutur - hindi pantay, bukul-bukul, uneven (ginupit ng gutur-gutur)
• Hagobel - gigantic or pinakamalaki.
• Hiduk - sira ulo, utu-utu
• Hidhid - sugapa
• Hiridu - matindi ang tama, lasing na lasing
• Idangdang - iihaw, ilagay sa apoy, painitan
• Imoy - money or kuwarta
• Intin - hintayin, wait
• Isamual - to force into one's mouth
• Isapwal - to throw things away through tthe window or any hole in the house
• Isimpan - itabi, to set aside
• Itangil - itaga, itaya para tagain
• Kabang - sakang
• Kabel-an - hindi magkapareho, uneven, not the same size
• Kalaghara - plema, phlegm
• Kalapnit - paniki, bat
• Kalibkib - tutung ng niyog sa bao, tirang niyog sa bao pagkatapus kayurin
• Kalut - a loop knot (silo) used for catching tikling
• Kapukit - small portion, or gatinggil
• Kaputod - shorts
• Karhed - same as kaybut but kaybut is more forced, kahid
• Katsibung - kinatsibung, sinundot ng daliri ang puwit
• Kaybut - kinaybut; scratch like chicken scratching, dig using fingers
• Keb-keb - body dirt esp. maplike dirt
• Kelkel - karga-karga, dala-dala, buhat
• Keng-keng - to hop
• Kep-pot - dipping a finger in a female's private part (he! he!), female masturbation
• Kerebsaw - quiver, especially in fish
• Kere-kerewe - balu-baluktot, crooked, uneven
• Kes-sel - skin a palay or butong pakwan using your mouth
• Kinadlu - kadlu, sinandok na sabaw o ulam sa kaserola o kaldero, o kaya ay tubig sa tapayan o timba
• Kogkog - loser
• Korombot or kulubong - laying on bed whith whole body covered with blanket
• Kot-teb - to cut or get a small portion, kot-tebin ang buhok
• Kurudupdup - wee light that looks like dying down
• Kurumbisti - batang nagmamaktol
• Kutus - katus, to hit someone's head with the knuckle
• Kuwidaw - a senese of warning. Ex: kuwidaw ka at baka ka niya saktan.
• Labsak - watery, i.e. labsak na dinagtu
• Lapoy-lapoy - apurahan na luto
• Lebleb - smothered with tounge. Ex: Yung asu ay nilebleban ni yung kawali.
• Lino' - maghugas ng pinggan, wash the dishes
• Log-okin - mahina ang katawan, sakitin, sickly person or animal esp. chicken
• Lok-kog - taking off slightly matured coconut meat from its shell using a knife or spoon
• Lo-u - maglo-u, to eat rice straight from the pot
• Lumakbas - to walk over something - i.e. a low fence, or a sleeping person
• Lumun - sobrang hinog, too ripe
• Lungad - naglungad, batang nagsuka ng gatas o kinain
• Lupek - crushed, disfigured
• Luway-luway - dahan-dahan, slowly, carefully
• Mabang-i - mabaho, stinky
• Magayut - used in galyang or gabi meaning watery
• Mag-e - Kumuha, prefix attached to something that you will get. Nilalagay sa bagay na kukunin mo. Ex: Tara mag-e ibobug.
• Maggama - gama, manghuli ng isa sa pamamagitan ng kamay, to catch a fish using one's hands
• Maka-otla - nakakasawa
• Makaryod - maker-reg, mataray
• Maker'reg - mataray, malandi, flirt
• Maki-adaday - (root word adaday) makialam, makihalo
• Makudup - mahirap lumiyab. Ex: Makudup iyan ay pang-gatong mu.
• Malag - tanga-tanga
• Malangeg - marumi, dirty
• Malibunuk - magulong kausap
• Manubalang - almost ripe, manibalang
• Maradad - mapakla at maasim
• Maradis - stinks, mabaho, mabantot
• Masel-let - nangitim na damit o puting tela
• Masilig - wild river or sea, with heavy undercurrent
• Matablal - matabang, tubig na walang lasa, bland-tasting water
• Mayabu - used in galyang or gabi meaning very dry, as opposed to magayut
• Nabonogan - (root word - bonog) nabalis, nabati, nausog
• Naglaug - naggala, nag-stroll
• Nagparadi - pahelehele or hard to convince with insulting looks
• Nakatukmud - (root word - tukmud) nakapangalumbaba
• Nalanawan - nahilaw o hindi nalutong gulay
• Nalon-okan - nabarahan ng pagkain ang lalamunan, choked
• Nangku - let me see it or let me hold it
• Napaengo - nagkamali, napahiya
• Napalisgay - (root word - lisgay) natapilok, nadulas, slip
• Narogsat - collapse, gumuho
• Natulsak - natusok, hit with pointed object
• Ne-ut - magne-ut, magnakaw, steal
• Ngarotngot - the sound of grinding the teeth when asleep Ex: Akaw, kung matulug iyan na-ngarotngot.
• Ngedet - iyakin, isang kalbit lamang umiiyak na
• Ngonsol - maga ang labi, swollen lips
• Ngopngop - bungal, walang ngipin
• Ngoy-ngoy - cry or crying
• Nonol - sobrang lasing, di maintindihan ang sinasabi
• Ogkak - napasuka sa busug
• Ok-kob - magtago sa nakaharang na bagay, hide behind a thing or object
• Olabsak - to sit with one's bottom on the ground and with legs spread wide, nakaupo sa sahig
• Om-mog - to smoke a cigar with the lighted end inside the mouth
• Ongaleb - biting on coconut meat straight from the shell
• Oron - mag-oron, magkwentuhan
• Paek-ke - pakipot, maarte
• Paepong-epong - nagpaepong-epong, wander around, magpaikot-ikot, magpagala-gala
• Pakloy - weak or lampa
• Palas - nalipasan ng gutum
• Paldu - mapera, nanalo sa sugal
• Paleklek - detour or lumihis, or to take a longer route
• Palongso - mabahong putik sa sasahan
• Palpuk - bonfire, smoky bonfire using coconut husk, used in smoking trees and smoking out mosquitoes
• Pangkal - mahina, weak or loser
• Panuklang - pantukod sa bintana
• Paolpot-olpot - palitaw-litaw, pasilip-silip
• Pawardi-wardi - walk like a drunk person
• Pelpel - flat
• Pengkaw - kerewe ang kamay, pilipit ang kamay
• Peslet - pesletin, crush using hand or feet
• Petpet - laging napagbubuntunan ng sisi
• Peyok - peyokin, to reach and bend a tree branch. Esp. used in getting guava fruits
• Pikaru - maulit, makulit
• Podong - nilalaro ang suso o utong, playing with the breasts or nipples
• Porotpot - liquid human waste, happens when having diarrhea
• Poypoy - simoy ng hangin
• Puluteput - small or maliit, specially used on bananas or saging
• Puropur - rain with slight gust of wind
• Ragusaw - rumaragusaw, dumadagsa, nagkakagulo
• Ramotmot - hibla sa damit o tela
• Ramusak - untidy or lamug
• Rapot-rapot - ginawa ng mabilisan, minadali
• Rarug - sediment, latak
• Rasewat - tuyong sanga, dried piece of tree branch
• Rebuk - to muddy a body of water (Si otoy ay, nirebuk na niya yung sapa.)
• Repilon - whirl
• Sagongsong - get away abruptly, umalis ng mabilis
• Salag-ak - sumiksik sa pagkakaupo. To carry on the shoulder, or to carry where the leg is between your neck, pasanin na ang magkabilang paa ay nasa leeg.
• Salagwet - the one who carries the catch - in fishing or hunting
• Salibadyok - salisi, doing something fishy
• Sapuretret - overflow or apwas
• Sapyot - throw water or liquid. To cast anywhere - isapyot.
• Sartin - kaserola
• Sekalug - tageng-gong
• Selaput - sinelaput; eating saucy food with fingers, dipping the finger in sauce or jams then licking it from the fingers
• Selpet - sumeselpet, umuusli, lumalabas ng kaunti, dumudungaw (sumeselpet na bayag)
• Saredsed - to walk without lifting the feet, or dragging the feet
• Serepsep - when you cast an object on the surface river, lake or sea
• Sibig - school dismissal, or labasan na sa paaralan
• Siput - siniput, kinalbit ang puwit. Ginagamit kung ikaw ay nasa sakluk ng bahay, and you want attention, sisiputin mo yung nasa itaas.
• Sogkak - naisuka ang isinubo
• Solpot - lumitaw
• Suliling - duling or crosseye
• Supdit - dumura ng malakas
• Tabegok - one leg of another hook to another and together they hop
• Tabeng-eg - nakakiling, sala’
• Tabsung - to dive
• Tagenggong - earwax, dry or melted
• Tagiti - shower or mahinang ulan
• Tagupak - loud clapping
• Takad - tinakad, to measure depth of water or river
• Tak-ke - ebak, tai, human or animal waste
• Takmul - gulp, swallow whole
• Tam-esan - malaki ang mata, originally refers to santol, but now also used in persons with big eyes
• Tamtamin mu! - mabuti nga sa iyu. Be buti nga.
• Tampodok - Tampuhin
• Tangkung - crab or shrimp shells
• Tapalang - kabibe
• Tarabesbes - slanted, lumakad ng patarabesbes
• Tarkado - very tired
• Tayka - teka, wait
• Tayongtong - squat, to sit with two feet and the bottom almost touching the ground
• Telebong - sumaka o umupo sa braso ng dalawang taong magkahawak sa balikat. Karaniwang ginagamit pag nagtatawid ng babae sa ilog para wag mabasa.
• Tempuhung - a big wound not less than 2 inches wide
• Teptep - to play with water using the palm
• Tet-terek - sarangola o burador na mataas lumipad at walang kagalaw-galaw
• Tingaru - nakatingaru; askew, extending, nakausli
• Tingeg - neck stretched sideways
• Tingkalag - bumagsak o nahulog na patihaya, to drop with feet and hands on the air
• Tipakok - guess, hulaan
• Tok-katok - dropping and lifting movement of one's head if he/she is sitting and feels like sleeping
• Tolgad - itulak sa likod ng malakas
• Topopung - an expression that usually occur during a game, intended to stop the game to make excuse or make your point. Ex: Topopung at may kukunin lang ako.
• Tuyupan - tubo (yari sa buho), gamit pang-ihip ng apoy sa kalan
• Udyuk - one being called with an offending name Ex: Inuudyuk niya aku ng labut!
• Uraput - sobrang duming damit, very dirty clothes
• Uyu - dried piece of coconut flower's shell used as firewood
• Waredwed - lakad na parang lasing
• Winakil - wakil, niyabat o itinaboy ng itak
• Yakyak - yakyakan, tapakan

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