- a variation of Bikol.
Bicol
Americannoun
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Bicols,
plural
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Bicol
plural
Other Word Forms
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The warning had been sent by email to air traffic services about a threat to flights out of the capital Manila headed to Davao, Bicol and the popular tourist regions of Palawan and Cebu.
From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2023
The 39-year-old Manila office worker was on the bus to Bicol when her family phoned her to say that they were moving to a shelter.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
Sixteen of the 25 deaths were reported in Northern Mindanao region in the south, while 12 of the 26 missing are from the eastern Bicol region, the council added.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
“I do not consider this a loss because we have achieved many things this election season,” she said, speaking during a Catholic Mass in Bicol Region, where she is from.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
He told it to me in the Bicol dialect, and said that this must be a Bicol story.”
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
Among the Tagalogs, Bicols, and Visayans, the word is not used to designate a night-appearing demon or monster.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
The latter said that the story was traditional among the Bicols, and that he had heard it from his grandfather.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
The civilized natives live almost solely on its coasts, and there are also Bisayans who differ in speech and manners from the Bicols in about the same degree that the latter do from the Tagalogs.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Austin Craig
There are Tagalogs, Visayans, Bicols, Pampangans, Ilokanos, Cagayanes, etc., etc., to say nothing of the wild people themselves, all speaking different languages; but these can not be said to form one people.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
A long time ago, when the Bicols had not yet been welded into one tribe, there lived a couple in the mountains of Albay who had one son, named Juan.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
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