"Kwistiyun" is a word in CEBUANO
kwistiyun n {1} question raised in a class, meeting, examina-tion.
Píla ka kwistiyun ang tís?
How many questions are there in the test?
{2} problem, thing wrong with s.t.
Ang kwistiyun gud nímu dílì ka man mamínaw ug tambag, The problem with you is you never listen to advice.
Way kwistiyun nang sayúpa.
Gamay ra kaáyu, That error is no problem.
Its a very minor one.
Dì gud nà pait kaáyu.
Kwistiyun lang nà sa ánad, Its really not di?
cult.
Its just a question of getting used to it.
{3} con-troversy, dispute.
Mupalit ka niánang yutáa nga nag-atubang kanà karun ug dakung kwistiyun?
You are going to buy that land when it is being seriously questioned at the present time?
v {1} [A; ac6] ask questions in a class or session.
Mukwistiyun giyud ku basta dì kung kasabut, I ask questions when I dont un-derstand.
Kwistiyunun ka gánì sa maistra, tubag dáyun, When your teacher questions you, answer immediately.
Kini ang ákung ikwistiyun sa tís, Ill have this question in the test.
{2} [A12; c1] be a problem or di?
culty.
Maáyu ang plánu, ang nakakwis-tiyun lang kay way kwarta, It is a good plan, but the problem is there is no money.
{3} [A; c1] raise s.t.
to challenge or dispute.
Wà kahay mukwistiyun niíning inyung gibúhat?
Dont you think anybody will question what you did?
-abli a open to suspicion, having s.t.
anomalous or dishonest about it.
Kwistiyunabli nga transaksiyun, A questionable transaction.
Kwistiyunabli kaáyu ang kagíkan ánang bayhána, The real background of that woman is open to suspicion.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
layù a {1} far, distant. Layù kaáyu ang Urúpa, Europe is far away. Paryinti mi piru layù na, We are …
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