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pu̍t (R. hu̍t) 佛: (Zhangzhou "hu̍t" in more literary phrases; "ang" in more colloquial), Buddha; a Buddhist idol; any image, even sometimes those that are not for worship.
pu̍t-á 佛仔, a small idol; a small image or figure.  pu̍t-lá id.
pu̍t-á-pò 佛仔暴,  a storm about 4.4.
pu̍t-á-thâu 佛仔頭,  a head without a body, used as a child's toy.
pu̍t-á-thô̇ 佛仔土(塗), clay for making idols or images. 
thô-pu̍t-á 土佛仔, small clay figures used as toys by children.
náⁿ-thô-pu̍t-á  若(?)  土佛仔, idle and stupid, like a clay image.
pu̍t-ba̍k 佛目, having immovable eyes

pu̍t-kong 佛公, an idol; a god.
sîn-pu̍t 神佛, spirits and idols; objects of worship.
pu̍t-siōng 佛像, an image or picture of an idol (properly Buddhist).
chit-sien-pu̍t 一(蜀)身佛, a solid image
chit-tiuⁿ-pu̍t 一張佛, a picture of an idol (or of idols) not yet pasted on rollers.
chit-pak-pu̍t 一幅(樸?)佛, do. pasted on rollers.
oa̍h-pu̍t 活佛, a living buddha; the Dalai Lama or one of the other living Buddhas.
tsng-oa̍h-pu̍t 裝活佛, to be a barber (+).
chhài-pu̍t 菜佛, idols to which no animal food is offered.
tang-sai-pu̍t 東西佛, said of the feuds of the votaries of different idols, as at Chin-chew city.
pu̍t-tsó· 佛祖, Kwan-yin.  koan-im pu̍t-tsó· 觀音佛祖, id.
sek-hia pu̍t-tsó· (Tong-An) 釋迦佛祖, Shakya-muni; Buddha.
tán-pu̍t-tsó· (Tong-An) 等佛祖, to levy black-mail on road (v. tán).

tsng-pu̍t 裝佛, to make idols (+).
chhāi-pu̍t 裁(?)佛,  to set up an idol.
chhiáⁿ-pu̍t 請佛, to invite the spirit of an idol to enter the image or to come on a sorcerer; to invite an idol to move somewhere else.
pài-pu̍t 拜佛, to make obeisance to an idol.
ho̍k-sāi-pu̍t 服事佛, to worship idols.
ngiâⁿ-pu̍t 迎佛, to carry idols about in procession.
kng-pu̍t 扛佛, to carry an idol between two men.
mn̅g-pu̍t 問佛, to consult an idol.
koan-pu̍t 觀佛, to call the spirit of an idol to a medium or to a branch for writing oracles.

siá-pu̍t-jī 寫佛字, to trace characters by a branch held (by tâng-chí) before an idol.
khoàⁿ-pu̍t-jī 看佛字, to examine these characters and interpret the oracle, as Tauist priests do.
pu̍t-io̍h 佛藥, medicine prescribed by idols.
pu̍t-toâⁿ 佛壇, place screened off in an house for pictures of idols, in some rites (v. toâⁿ).
pu̍t-tiùⁿ 佛帳, curtains hung up before an idol's shrine.
tio̍h-pu̍t-thâu 著佛頭, to have the turn for a year of cultivating a field and worshipping an idol held in common. tsòe-pu̍t-thâu 做佛頭, id.


pu̍t 孛 [R. intractable, a comet]. 
liû-pu̍t thài-sòe 流孛太歲, the demon which causes eclipses by appearing naked, so that the luminary runs away ashamed. 
thǹg kàu chi̍t-sien náⁿ liû-pu̍t--nihⁿ, as naked as the eclipse demon (said in scolding a child).