ipuk verb English. Pinches off green twigs of growing plants or trees for fruit or leaves or to cause branching. Example sentence: Subanen. Su gubiu, ndi'u pa begay pengekbusan, pu' nda' pa pekapet, muka' melemu pa patay, sa' pengipuken nai gekbusen. English. I won't let the leaves of my sweet potato plants be picked yet, because the runners haven't run together yet, and they die easily if their leaves are pinched off. Generic. putuk c.f. edut