"Hamay" is a word in HILIGAYNON
hamáy - To become or be thin, lean,
emaciated, chiefly said of the face or
cheeks. Nagahamáy ang íya nga guyá.
His face is becoming thin. Naghamáy ang
íya písngi sa lakás nga pagpadayáw kag
sa mínos nga pagkáon. Her cheeks have
fallen in on account of too much vanity and
too little food. (cf. níwang, hágpis,
hágwos).
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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