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bøthaau bøboea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

incomplete; incomprehensible; nonsensical; no beginning or end (Lit. no head no tail)

無頭無尾

bøthaau kong'axn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

murder case which has no clue to its solution; a charge against a person or persons unknown

無頭公案

bøthaau-bøbøea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

out of blue

無頭無尾

bøthaau-kong'axn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

unsolved misery

無頭公案

DFT (8)

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#]

光說不練 ， 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#]

指兄弟間的才能 、 賢愚 ， 均無一致 ， 各有不同 。

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

指人世間的種種都有無法兩全其美的遺憾 。

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/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#]

形容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#]

喻兩敗俱傷 ， 誰也沒佔便宜 。

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

揶揄人少吹牛了 。

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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.