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liubøea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

(adj) in a difficult situation

溜尾; 狼狽

longpoe^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

highly embarrassed; in a bad dilemma; helplessly dependent; ill at ease; ruined; The wolf is said to have short hind legs; and the jackal to have short forelegs; so that the latter is said to ride on the back of the wolf. Used to express indecision; distress

狼狽

longpoe putkhafm [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

in utter disorder or confusion; be in great distress or embarrassment; very troubled; in disorder

狼狽不堪

longpoe siong'y [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Wolf and Jackal help each other. ─ The helpless help themselves: ask help from one who needs help

狼狽相依

longpoe tongheeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

in collusion; banded together for evil purposes

狼狽同行

longpoe uikafn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

work hand in glove (in evil ways); gang up with somebody

狼狽為奸

longpoe-putkhafm [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to be in great distress or embarrassment

狼狽不堪

longpoe-uikafn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to gang up with somebody

狼狽為奸

DFT (1)

🗣 longpoe 🗣 (u: loong'poe) 狼狽 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

落魄 。 形容人窮困潦倒不得志 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association. Syllable segmentation in progress.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), Maryknoll (2001), and other dictionaries.

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.