bitin

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• Hyphenation: bi‧tin

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bitin

1. a snake; a legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue
2. (humorous) the penis

• halas

B +‎ ten

bitin

1. (bingo) the number ten

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bitin.

bitin

1. genitive singular of bitti

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bitin

1. meat

bitín

1. snake

bítin

1. haul, lift

From Proto-Philippine *bítin.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbitin/ [ˈbiː.t̪ɪn̪] (“hanging position; hanging object; act of hanging; type of game; prizes in that game”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -itin
  • IPA^(key): /biˈtin/ [bɪˈt̪ɪn̪] (“too short (of clothes, etc.); inadequate; dissatisfied”, adjective; “boa that hangs from trees”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: bi‧tin

bitin (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. hanging position

   Synonyms: lawit, sabit

2. suspended object; hanging object
3. act of hanging something

   Synonyms: paglalawit, pagbibitin

4. a kind of game where participants grab hung prizes from a square trellis

   Synonym: pabitin

5. hung prizes from such a game
6. (figurative, colloquial) inadequacy of something leaving one dissatisfied (of food, storyline, fun, etc.)

bitín (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆᜒᜈ᜔) (colloquial, figurative)

1. awkwardly short (of clothes, fabric, etc.)
2. inadequate, leaving one dissatisfied (of food, storyline, fun, etc.)
3. dissatisfied due to inadequacy (of food, storyline, fun, etc.)

bitín (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. large boa that hangs from tree branches

• biting

• “bitin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bítin”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• binti

bitin

1. genitive singular of bit
2. second-person singular possessive of bit