suw usta

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Intended meaning

• Qonşularıbıznı ne söleşgenlerin bilib kel dep, anam gitçe zamanımdan suw usta etib qoyğandı.By sending me to find out what our neighbours were talking about, my mother made me a fluent talker from the time I was little.
• Jağa eline pisar bolub kelgen, tawça suw kibik usta, tawlulanı har türlü qılıqların bilgen, ulutha bla içkini janından ese bek süygen, allay adam edi.He was the sort of man who had come to the village of Jagha as a scribe, perfectly fluent in the mountain tongue, familiar with every custom of the highlanders, and fonder of bribes and drink than of anything else.