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HTB (2)

høfgiaqlaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]: rich man; 好額人; 富有的人
keg-høfgiaqlaang-phaix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]: take on the airs and appearance of a wealthy man when really not so; 裝有錢人的派頭; 假好額人派

DFT (1)

🗣 høfgiaqlaang 🗣 (u: hør'giah'laang) 好額人 [wt][mo] hó-gia̍h-lâng [#]: 1. (N) || 有錢人。錢財充裕、生活富足的人。; 🗣le: (u: Hør'giah'laang ee sefng'oah kaq larn si bøo kang'khoarn`ee.) 🗣 (好額人的生活佮咱是無仝款的。) (有錢人的生活和我們是不一樣的。)
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Maryknoll (8)

bixpitjieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bi'pid'jieen ⬆︎ [[...]]

not necessarily so

未必然

Høfgiaqlaang bixpitjieen khoaelok. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Hør'giah'laang bi'pid'jieen khoaix'lok. ⬆︎ [[...]]
The rich are not always happy.
有錢人未必快樂。

zhutsyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zhud'syn ⬆︎ [[...]]

be a graduate of a university, be a native of, rise from poverty to wealth and rank

出身

Y si Taioaan Taixhak zhutsyn ee. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y si Taai'oaan Tai'hak zhud'syn ee. ⬆︎ [[...]]
He is a graduate of the National University of Taiwan.
他是台灣大學出身的。

Yn thaethaix si høfgiaqlaang zhutsyn ee. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Yn thaix'thaix si hør'giah'laang zhud'syn ee. ⬆︎ [[...]]
His wife came from a rich family.
他太太是出身於有錢人家。

keg høfgiaqlaang phaix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: keg hør'giah'laang phaix ⬆︎ [[...]]

take on the airs and appearance of a wealthy man when really not so

裝有錢人的派頭

kuxtøea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ku'tea; ku'tøea; (purn'tea) ⬆︎ [[...]]

originally

本來

Y kuxtea si høfgiaqlaang. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y ku'tea si hør'giah'laang. ⬆︎ [[...]]
He originally was a rich man.
他本來是有錢人。

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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)
Maryknoll: 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)
Lim08: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten (TDJ)) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2008. We make updates and corrections, and refer to Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢2019 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of TDJ) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019.
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.