"Orat-Orat" is a word in HILIGAYNON
orát-órat - (B) To be determined to, make
great efforts, wish, desire, strive.
Nagaorát-órat gid tána kang panahî, hay
mangílin magsóhol sa mananáhì. She is
determined to do her own sewing, because
she does not like (is too stingy) to pay
wages to a seamstress. Gintáw-an roláng
(ron lang) ni tátay na ti kwárta, hay
nagorát-órat kang pangáyò. His father
finally gave him some money, because he
so insistently (repeatedly) asked for it. (cf.
himúlat, paningúhà, panikasúg).
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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