"Guphal" is a word in HILIGAYNON
gúphal - State of being dry and difficult to
swallow, roughness; to be or become dry,
etc. Also applied to roughness of skin or the
like, but chiefly to food. Iníng pagkáon
walâ sing gúphal (kagúphal). This food—is
easy to swallow,—is not rough or difficult to
swallow. Naggúphal iníng tinápay. This
bread is dry and difficult to swallow.
Kagúphal sang ímo pánit! How rough your
skin is!
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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