"Yam-Is" is a word in HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
yám-is - Sweetishness; to grow sweetish,
be somewhat sweet; to be or become
mawkish, nauseous, sickly (particularly
yámo – yáyong
said of things that taste unnaturally sweet).
(cf. tám-is).
yam-is a slightly sweet.
Yam-is ang ubang imbaw, Some clams taste somewhat sweet.
v [B; b6] taste sweetish.
Nagyam-is ang ákung bàbà human makainum sa sikwáti, I have a sweetish taste in my mouth after drinking the chocolate.
-un() n of a sweetish kind.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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marimís-rímis - (B) Dim. of marímis. Rather sweet, sweetish.
Read the complete definitionmayám-is - Sweetish, rather or slightly sweet, less sweet than matám-is. (yám-is).
Read the complete definitionSomewhat sweet; sweetish.
Read the complete definitionSomewhat sweet.
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