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Cebuano
Etymology
Reduplication of buot (“have one's way”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buʔutˈbuʔot/
- Hyphenation: bu‧ot‧bu‧ot
Verb
buotbuot (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜂᜆ᜔ᜊᜓᜂᜆ᜔)
- to impose one's will where one doesn't have the right or is not allowed to do so
Hari diay ka para magbuotbuot?- Are you royalty to have the guts to impose your will?
- to take it upon oneself; do without authority; do without following instructions
- Synonym: pataka
Nganong nagbuotbuot kag palit ana?- Why did you take it on yourself to buy that?
- (colloquial) to make things up; to invent, forge, devise falsely
- Synonym: pataka
- Wala ko nagbuotbuot. ― I am not making things up.
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