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Htb (cache) (5)

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

having nothing to eat

沒得吃

Ciah køefcie bøo paix chiuxthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

ungrateful to the benefactors

吃果子沒拜樹頭; 忘本

ciah-liao bøo twhør [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

stomach upset

吃了無適好; 吃壞了肚子

thaxn-bøo ciah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not making a living; not making ends meet

無法謀生

Zhvekongkao ciah-bøo sae^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

things done in a hurry cannot be done well; fail in goal by being hasty (Lit. If a dog eats too fast there is nothing to turn to excrement.)

欲速則不達。

DFT (6)

🗣 Bøo hitlø khazhngf, sviuxbøeq ciah hitlø siariøh. 🗣 (u: Bøo hid'lø khaf'zhngf, sviu'beq ciah hid'lø siax'iøh. Bøo hid'lø khaf'zhngf, sviu'bøeq ciah hid'lø siax'iøh.) 無彼號尻川，想欲食彼號瀉藥。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

沒有那種屁股 ， 想吃那種瀉藥 。 形容人沒有那種能耐 ， 卻妄想做那種事 。 比喻一個人自不量力 。

🗣 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 。

🗣 Ciah bøo svaf pea erngzhaix, tø bøeq cviu sethiefn. 🗣 (u: Ciah bøo svaf pea exng'zhaix, tø beq cviu sef'thiefn. Ciah bøo svaf pea exng'zhaix, tø bøeq cviu sef'thiefn.) 食無三把蕹菜，就欲上西天。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃不到三把空心菜 ， 就妄想可以上西天了 。 諷刺人不肯腳踏實地 ， 妄想一步登天 。

🗣 Siorngmia bøo pøf, ciah zuie tøf bøo. 🗣 (u: Sioxng'mia bøo pøf, ciah zuie tøf bøo.) 相命無褒，食水都無。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

算命時如果不說些讚美客人的話 ， 連水都沒得喝 。 說明江湖術士的話不可盡信 ， 也勸人要多說好話 。

🗣 Siøpwn ciah u zhwn, siøchviuo ciah bøo hun./Svapwn ciah u zhwn, svachviuo ciah bøo hun. 🗣 (u: Siøf/Svaf'pwn ciah u zhwn, siøf/svaf'chviuo ciah bøo hun.) 相分食有賰，相搶食無份。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

飲食互相分享 ， 則綽綽有餘 ； 互相爭搶 ， 反而沒得吃 。 比喻禮讓則互蒙其利 ， 爭奪則互受其害 。

🗣 Zhvekoong-kao ciah-bøo sae./Chvikoong-kao ciah-bøo sae. 🗣 (u: Zhvef/Chvy'koong-kao ciah-bøo sae.) 生狂狗食無屎。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

狗若過於慌張 、 急促 ， 就連屎都吃不到 。 誡人處事不可操之過急 ， 過於急躁反而會失敗 。

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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.