gigi pick out the meat (of cooked fish with one's fingers)

• • pick out the meat (of cooked fish with one's fingers)
  • • removal

  • • Example 1570:
      

      Gigi a iana.

      Pick out the flesh of the fish.

      Source: VaaSen 01W 021

    • Example 1571:
      

      Bean tau vaa'an a beiko bona iana, ean repaa gigi vamataa a iana, ore goe ta aromo bona sinoo.

      Before you give fish to a child, you nicely pick out the meat of the fish, so that he does not swallow the bones.

      Source: Sii 47W 078-080

Related entries

• See also:
  • aromo swallow something
  • sinoo¹ (of humans and animals) bone / (of leaves) midrib
  • tagigi be picked out (of cooked meat of fish)