"Utay-Utay" is a word in HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
utáy-utáy - Retail, small quantity, little by
little; to retail, deal in small quantities, do
little by little, by little and little, in small
instalments, etc. Ginautáyutáy lang níya
ang pagbáyad sang íya útang. He is
paying off his debt in small amounts at a
time (in (by) instalments). Maáyo kon índì
mo pagtíngban sang íya galastóhon ang
bátà mo nga nagatoón sa Manílà, kóndì
utáyutayán mo lang. It is advisable (good
policy) not to give your son that is studying
in Manila the whole amount for his
expenses in a lump sum, but to let him
have it by instalments (by small
remittances from time to time). Bungkagá
lang ang isá mo ka manóso (máno) nga
tabákò kag ipautáyutáy, agúd madalî
maúrut sang bakál. Just undo one of your
bundles of tobacco-leaves and sell it retail
so that it may be bought up soon.
Nagabalígyà siá sing utáyutáy. He is
selling retail. He is a retail-merchant. (cf.
píndak—wholesale).
utay-utay, utay-útay v [AB12; c1] do s.t.
little by little, have s.t.
happen to it a little at a time.
Utay-utáya lang pagbáyad, Pay for it little at a time.
Utay-utáya paggámit ang sabun, Use the soap little at a time.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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