May's dictionary of (very limited) Hokkien vocabulary

Pia
(pee-ya)
v. pia-ed, pia-ing, pia-s

1. To work extremely hard and persevere at something, often unwillingly and bringing about a pitiful state: I must pia Thermodynamics, or else die.
2. To study at Imperial College London. I am sitting here typing this because a year ago, I chose to pia.
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