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bøo bin thafng kvix laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

feeling ashamed to see others because of some awkward; inconvenient; or shameful state of matters

無臉見人

bøo iøh thafng kiux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

incurable; beyond hope; incorrigible

無藥可救

bøo oe thafng korng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

having nothing to say; unable to say anything

無話可講

bøo thafng ciah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

having nothing to eat

沒得吃

DFT (3)

Bøo thafng zhvef ciah, nar u thafng phagkvoaf./Bøo thafng chvy ciah, nar u thafng phagkvoaf. 🗣 (u: Bøo thafng zhvef/chvy ciah, nar u thafng phak'kvoaf.) 無通生食，哪有通曝乾。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

生吃都不夠 ， 哪能晒成乾 ？ 比喻數量不足 ， 不可能有多餘的留下來 。 也指個人或家計窘困 ， 沒有餘錢作額外支出 。

Kamgoan zøx guu, m kviaf bøo lee thafng thoaf./Kamgoan zøex guu, m kviaf bøo lee thafng thoaf. 🗣 (u: Kafm'goan zøx/zøex guu, m kviaf bøo lee thafng thoaf.) 甘願做牛，毋驚無犁通拖。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

情願當牛 ， 就不怕沒犁可拉 。 意即為謀求一餐溫飽 ， 只要願意放下身段 ， 努力工作 ， 不怕沒有機會 。 也常說成反話 ， 用來告誡子女 ， 不努力讀書 ， 將來只能靠體力工作謀生 。

Zhvef ciah tøf bøkaux, nar u thafng phagkvoaf./Chvy ciah tøf bøkaux, nar u thafng phagkvoaf. 🗣 (u: Zhvef/Chvy ciah tøf bøo'kaux, nar u thafng phak'kvoaf.) 生食都無夠，哪有通曝乾。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

生吃都不夠了 ， 哪有多餘的可以曬乾 。「 曝乾 」 通常是指食物過剩時曬乾儲存 。 比喻現實生活已捉襟見肘 ， 對未來的日子更不敢奢望 。

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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.