"Lamuy" is a word in CEBUANO
lamuy v {1} [A; a] take in s.t.
by swallowing.
Maglamuy kug tablítas pára katúlug, Ill take some sleeping pills.
Gilamuy si Hunas sa balyína, Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
{1a} eat greedily or gluttonously (coarse).
À, milakaw man lang dáyun human makalamuy, After he gorged himself, he immediately left the party.
{1b} sa bakunáwa ang búwan [a12] for there to be a lunar eclipse (for the moon to have been swallowed by the bakunáwa).
{2} [A; a2] swallow words or feelings.
Milamuy ka lang dáyun sa íyang gisulti, You swallowed his story, hook, line, and sinker.
Gilamuy ku ang ákung kasukù arun way masilù, I just swallowed my anger so that nobody would have hard feel-ings.
{3} swallowed up in a figurative sense.
Galastúhan nga milamuy sa ílang tinipígan, The expenses which swallowed up their savings.
Gilamuy siya sa kangitngit, He was swallowed by the darkness.
n food consumption.
Ang ámung mutsatsu dakug lamuy, Our servant eats too much.
walay poor as a church mouse (deprecatory).
-in-an n manner of eating.
- lamoy in HILIGAYNON
Hanna reached for Margaret's hand, knowing nothing she could say would bring comfort. Margaret would never see her grandmother again. Nor would Hanna see her Oma, who had wept when Hanna boarded the ship for America, waving goodbye for the last time. Only the elderly and frail were left behind. And letters from home were not the same as a warm laugh or a cup of tea shared on a cold day.
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