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niaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

cat; pockmarked; scarred. Sodomite; catamite

貓

Niaw khaux niawchie kea uxsym [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

pretend to be sad (Lit. The cat cries over the death of a rat.)

貓哭耗子假慈悲。

niaw-soafsiu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

DFT (4)

hoepali'niaw 🗣 (u: hoef'paf'ly'niaw) 花巴哩貓 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

形容圖案樣式或顏色雜亂無章的樣子 。 形容人吃東西的時候 ， 臉上沾滿食物殘渣 。

niaw 🗣 (u: niaw) 貓 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) cat (domestic animal) 2. (N) woman 3. (Adj) trifling; trivial; tedious; inconsequential

常見家畜的一種 。 瞳孔大小會因為光線的強弱而改變 ， 聽覺和視覺都很敏銳 ， 行動敏捷 ， 善捕鼠 。 用來指女人 。 瑣碎 。

svakha'niaw 🗣 (u: svaf'khaf'niaw) 三跤貓 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

三腳貓 。 形容技藝不精 、 不中用的人 。

Zhvemee niaw kaxtiøh sie niawchie./Chvimii niaw kaxtiøh sie niawzhuo. 🗣 (u: Zhvef/Chvy'mee/mii niaw ka'tiøh sie niao'chie/zhuo.) 青盲貓咬著死鳥鼠。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻誤打誤撞 。

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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.