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Cit ciaq satbør poxng kaq zuyguu toa./Cit ciaq satbuo poxng kaq zuyguu toa. 🗣 (u: Cit ciaq sad'bør/buo poxng kaq zuie'guu toa.) 一隻蝨母嗙甲水牛大。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一隻小蝨子誇大成大水牛 。 意指小小的東西或事情 ， 誇大其辭 ， 說得天花亂墜 。 比喻言過其實 。

Svef`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee unzeeng khaq toa thvy./Svy`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee unzeeng khaq toa thvy. 🗣 (u: Svef/Svy`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee wn'zeeng khaq toa thvy.) 生的請一邊，養的恩情較大天。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

親生的父母暫且擱在一邊 ， 養育者的恩情比天還高 。 提醒被撫養人不要抹煞養育人的苦心與功勞 ； 又指生身父母比養育者的地位還差一些 。

cidtoaxthoaf 🗣 (u: cit'toa'thoaf) 一大拖 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一大堆 、 很多 。

cidtoaxtuy 🗣 (u: cit'toa'tuy) 一大堆 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () large quantity or lot; a multitude of people; a heap of

一大堆

Cit ee gyn'ar khaq lauxjiet svaf ee toaxlaang. 🗣 (u: Cit ee girn'ar khaq lau'jiet svaf ee toa'laang.) 一个囡仔較鬧熱三个大人。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一個小孩比三個大人在一起還熱鬧 。 小孩天真活潑 ， 不時活蹦亂跳 ， 大人也爭相哄他寵他 ， 往往會逗得大人們笑呵呵 。 所以家裡有小孩子 ， 氣氛會顯得熱鬧又活絡 。

Toaxlaang khiam cit zhuix, gyn'ar ciah kaq uix. 🗣 (u: Toa'laang khiam cit zhuix, girn'ar ciah kaq uix.) 大人儉一喙，囡仔食甲飫。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

大人省一口 ， 小孩吃到膩 。 意即大人少吃一口食物 ， 就能讓食量較小的小孩子吃得飽 ， 甚至吃到膩了 。 這是老人家疼愛小孩子的用語 。

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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.