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chifich to defeat, to beat someone in a contest, to beat someone at gambling

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1110 | revised 03 Nov 2005

chifich • V • to defeat, to beat someone in a contest, to beat someone at gambling.

Source: WB 289, p.330

  • chifíichtihaphanik ikreemyahváraa pakurihákaam. They couldn't beat him at playing music or singing. [Reference: KS1. Eel 003]

  • ápapkam takinchífich. One side beat the other. [Reference: WB 13: Coyote's Gambling Song 007]

Sentence examples (8)

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  1. ápap-kam   tá   kin-chífich  
    one.side-side   PERF   3sg./pl.-3pl.-beat  
    One side beat them (on the other side).
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
    Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | 

  2. vúra   tá   kin-chífich  
    Intensive   PERF   3sg./pl.-3pl.-beat  
    They beat them.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
    Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | 

  3. púya-va   pa-tó-o   xus   tá   kana-chífich   kári   pa-mu-têenva   tó-o   syuunkiv  
    and.so-so   NOMZ-PERF-3sg.(:3)   think   PERF   2pl.:1sg.-beat   then   the-3sg.POSS.-earring   PERF-3sg.(:3)   pull.out  
    And when she thought, "I've been beaten," then she pulled off her earrings.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  4. púya-va   pa-kéevniikich   tá   kun-chífich  
    and.so-so   the-old.woman.(dimin.)   PERF   3pl.(:3sg.)-beat  
    Then the old woman was beaten.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  5. chavúra   uum   koovúra   tá   kun-chífich   akráa   chamuxich-'îin  
    finally   3.SG   all   PERF   3pl.(:3sg.)-beat   eel   sucker-TOPIC  
    Finally Sucker won everything from Eel.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text

  6. kári   xás   vaa   káru   vúra   u-chífich  
    then   then   so   also   Intensive   3sg.(:3)-beat  
    Then he won those too.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text

  7. kári   xás   u-xus   máva   aaníhich   tá   kun-chífich  
    then   then   3sg.(:3)-think   here!   my.older.brother   PERF   3pl.(:3sg.)-beat  
    And he thought, "Look, big brother's getting beaten."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text

  8. xás   kun-chífich  
    then   3pl.(:3sg.)-beat  
    And they beat him.
    Source: Nettie Reuben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text