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Htb (cache) (4)

lauxtoaxlaang^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

(n) polite term for old woman or man

老大人

lawtoaxkøf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

a reference to one's senior of equal standing

老大哥

lomoathaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

ringleader of a bond of evildoers

流氓頭; 老大

toaxee [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

elder brother; respectful address to another; especially to one about our own rank and age

大哥; 老大

DFT (7)

lauxtoaxkofng 🗣 (u: lau'toa'kofng) 老大公 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

孤魂野鬼 。

lauxtoaxlaang 🗣 (u: lau'toa'laang) 老大人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

老人家 。 高齡的長者 。

lawtoa 🗣 (u: lao'toa) 老大 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

指兄弟姊妹間排行第一的人 。 江湖幫會或團體中的首領 。

Siaolieen bøexhiao sviu, ciaqlau mxcviaviu. 🗣 (u: Siaux'lieen bøe'hiao sviu, ciah'lau m'cviaa'viu.) 少年袂曉想，食老毋成樣。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

年輕時思慮不周 ， 等到老了生活堪憂 。 年輕時沒有做好生涯規劃 ， 年老時便會落魄潦倒 。 意即少壯不努力 ， 老大徒傷悲 。 用來勉勵人年輕時要有遠見 ， 努力為未來鋪路 。

toa`ee 🗣 (u: toa`ee) 大的 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

老大 、 大哥 ， 對團體領導者的敬稱 ， 通常用於下對上的稱呼語 。 大哥 ， 兄長 ， 表示自己的親大哥 ， 或至交兄長 ， 是比較俚俗的用法 。

toaxkøf 🗣 (u: toa'køf) 大哥 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

稱謂 。 兄弟中排行最大的 、 最年長的 。 老大 。 團體中的領導人 。

toaxlangtoaxzerng 🗣 (u: toa'laang'toa'zerng) 大人大種 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

老大不小 。 常用來指責人行為舉止不夠成熟 。 指責舉止不像成人的成人 。

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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.