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Htb (cache) (2)

korng laang ee tngtea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

criticize others; talk about the shortcomings of others

說人長短

tngtea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

long and short; length; excellencies and defects; pros and cons; gossip

長短

DFT (5)

tngtea 🗣 (u: tngg'tea) 長短 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

長度 。 是非 。 事理的對與錯 。

liaqtngg-poftea 🗣 (u: liah'tngg-por'tea) 掠長補短 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

取長補短 、 截長補短 。 取有餘以補不足 。

Svaf laang kang go bak, jidau bøo tngtefkha'oe. 🗣 (u: Svaf laang kang go bak, jit'au bøo tngg'tea'khaf'oe.) 三人共五目，日後無長短跤話。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻共同決定的事 ， 事後不得反悔 。

svatngnngxtea 🗣 (u: svaf'tngg'nng'tea) 三長兩短 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

指意外不測 、 變故 ， 多指死亡 。

tngtefkha'oe 🗣 (u: tngg'tea'khaf'oe) 長短跤話 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

異議 。 抱怨的話 。 源於民間笑譚的一句俚諺 ： 「 三人共五目 ， 日後無長短跤話 。 」 相傳有一位媒婆 ， 撮合一位跛腳青年與單眼失明的女子 ， 經過巧妙設計相親方式 ， 兩人皆只看到對方優點 ， 未見缺陷 ， 彼此有意結緣 ， 媒婆乃向雙方言明此語 ， 意思是話說前頭 ， 大家歡喜甘願 ， 以後不得有抱怨的話 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

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

• 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), and Maryknoll (2001).

• 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.