"Hingbis" is a word in WARAY, CEBUANO
Hingbis - scales (as in fish scales)
hingbis n {1} scale on fishes, reptiles, birds legs.
{2} type of character (taken from the notion that the fighting cock is judged on the basis of the scales on his legs).
Unsa kahà ang hingbis sa íyang pagkababáyi?
What type of a woman is she?
v {1} [AN; b6(1)] remove the scales.
Human na nákù hingbísi ang mga isdà, I already removed the fish scales.
{2a} [AN; b(1)] select a fighting cock according to the scale formation on its legs.
Manghingbis kug manuk pára itárì, I will select a cock for the cockfight.
{2b} size up a person.
Gihingbísan kug maáyu sa ákung uganganun, My future father-in-law sized me up very carefully.
-un() a having scales.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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