"Hantak" is a word in HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
hántak - A kind of beans. (cf. hámtak,
balátong).
hantak n gambling game played with three of the old, large one-centavo coins which are tossed down simultaneously on a stone (antugan).
The one who tosses bets all heads against s.
o.
who bets all tails.
Bystanders may join in.
v [AC; b6] play hantak.
-an n stone to throw the coins on.
-an() n {1} place where a game of hantak is held.
{2} temporary place of abode.
Inig-anhi námù sa Sibu hutil muy ámung hantakan, When we come to Cebu we stay in a hotel.
v {1} [A; b6] hang around a place.
Adtu maghantakan ang mga buguy sa íyang tindáhan, The loafers hang around her store.
Ang ámung nataran mauy gihantakanan sa mga pidikab, The pedicabs park in our yard.
{2} [A; c6] stay, put s.w.
temporarily.
Átù lang ning ihantakan dinhig balíkun unyà, Well just leave this here temporarily and come back for it later.
-anan() = -an, 2.
-íru n one who plays hantak.
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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