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🗣 bøthausiin 🗣 (u: bøo'thaau'siin) 無頭神 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

健忘 、 沒記性 。

🗣 Cit mee zoaan thaulo, thvikngf bøpvoarpo./Cit mii zoaan thaulo, thvikngf bøpvoarpo. 🗣 (u: Cit mee/mii zoaan thaau'lo, thvy'kngf bøo'pvoax'po.) 一暝全頭路，天光無半步。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

整個晚上計畫很多事情 ， 天亮後卻沒有半點方法 。 形容人光說不練 ， 只會紙上談兵 。

🗣 Go ky zefngthauar zhwn`zhutlaai bøo pvee tngg./Go ky zefngthauar zhwn`zhutlaai bøo pvii tngg. 🗣 (u: Go ky zerng'thaau'ar zhwn`zhud'laai bøo pvee/pvii tngg.) 五肢指頭仔伸出來無平長。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

指五根手指頭伸出來不可能一樣長 ， 必有所歧異 。 如同兄弟姊妹其聰明才智並非一致 ， 仍舊有所不同 。

🗣 Kamciax bøo siangthaau tvy. 🗣 (u: Kafm'ciax bøo siafng'thaau tvy.) 甘蔗無雙頭甜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

甘蔗沒有頭尾都是甜的 。 比喻世事無法兩全其美 ， 凡事有利就有弊 ， 人不可能佔盡所有好處 。

🗣 liaqbøthauzarng 🗣 (u: liah'bøo'thaau'zarng) 掠無頭摠 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不得要領 、 抓不到頭緒 。

🗣 Liawcvii senglie bøo laang zøx, thaithaau senglie u laang zøx./Liawcvii senglie bøo laang zøex, thaithaau senglie u laang zøex. 🗣 (u: Liao'cvii sefng'lie bøo laang zøx, thaai'thaau sefng'lie u laang zøx. Liao'cvii sefng'lie bøo laang zøx/zøex, thaai'thaau sefng'lie u laang zøx/zøex.) 了錢生理無人做，刣頭生理有人做。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

賠錢的生意沒有人要做 ， 但利益當前 ， 即使是犯法會被判處死刑的生意也有人會做 。 形容無良商人為了賺錢而不擇手段 。

🗣 Løh zuie pvepvee tiim, zoaan bøo taxngthaukhyn./Løh zuie pvipvii tiim, zoaan bøo taxngthaukhyn. 🗣 (u: Løh zuie pvee/pvii'pvee/pvii tiim, zoaan bøo tang'thaau'khyn.) 落水平平沉，全無重頭輕。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一旦落入水中 ， 同樣都會往下沉 ， 沒有輕重的差別 。 說明大難來時大家的命運相同 ， 沒有任何差別 。

🗣 Ti'thauphøee zvoax bøo iuu. 🗣 (u: Ty'thaau'phoee zvoax bøo iuu. Ty'thaau'phøee zvoax bøo iuu.) 豬頭皮炸無油。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

豬頭皮炸不出油來 。 用來比喻一個人不具真才實學 ， 好吹牛 ， 所言空洞 ， 說不出大道理 。

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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.