"Palaw-Ay" is a word in HILIGAYNON
paláw-ay - (H) To make ugly, hideous,
etc. Palaw-ayá ang íya guyá, agúd índì na
siá makilála sang mga táo. Make his face
so ugly (Make him look hideous) that
people may not recognize him any more.
Ipaláw-ay sa íya iníng úling. Make him
look hideous with this charcoal. (pa, láway).
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
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A driver pulled up beside a rundown farmhouse. He got out and knocked at the door. A very old woman answered the door, and he asked her for directions to Des Moines."Don't know," the woman said.He got back in his car and pulled away. Then he heard voices. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the woman and an equally old man waving for him to come back. So he made a U- turn and drove up to them."This is my husband," the old woman said. "He doesn't know how to get to Des Moines either."
láway, or láw-ay - Ugliness, repulsiveness, nastiness, meanness, hideousness, obscenity; to be or become ugly, repulsive, hideous, forbidding, etc. Nagláw-ay …
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