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DFT (1)

🗣 Bøo hii, hee ma hør. 🗣 (u: Bøo hii, hee ma hør. ⬆︎ ) 無魚，蝦嘛好。 [wt][mo][[MK]] Bô hî, hê mā hó. [#]

1. () || 捉不到魚，捉到蝦子也好。比喻退而求其次，聊勝於無。

🗣le: (u: Sviu'beq ciah kym'koef'thngf, soaq kuy zhaix'chi'ar lorng bøo laang teq be kym'koef, “bøo hii, hee ma hør”, kyn'ar'jit sefng bea tafng'koef tngr laai'khix kuun paai'kud'thngf.) 🗣 (想欲食金瓜湯，煞規菜市仔攏無人咧賣金瓜，「無魚，蝦嘛好」，今仔日先買冬瓜轉來去𤉙排骨湯。) (想喝南瓜湯，整個菜市場卻沒有人賣南瓜，「退而求其次」，今天先買冬瓜回家煮排骨湯。)
近義：

Bøo guu sae bea., 無牛駛馬。

DFT_lk (1)

🗣u: Sviu'beq ciah kym'koef'thngf, soaq kuy zhaix'chi'ar lorng bøo laang teq be kym'koef, “bøo hii, hee ma hør”, kyn'ar'jit sefng bea tafng'koef tngr laai'khix kuun paai'kud'thngf. ⬆︎ 想欲食金瓜湯，煞規菜市仔攏無人咧賣金瓜，「無魚，蝦嘛好」，今仔日先買冬瓜轉來去𤉙排骨湯。 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.] [d#]: 想喝南瓜湯，整個菜市場卻沒有人賣南瓜，「退而求其次」，今天先買冬瓜回家煮排骨湯。

Maryknoll (1)

bøo hii, hee ma hør. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bøo hii, hee ma hør. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: adopt a makeshift course (Lit. If there are no fish, shrimp will do.); 無魚，蝦也好，將就!將就。

EDUTECH (2)

hee-hii 蝦魚 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hee-hii ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: both fish and shrimp; 蝦魚
hihee 魚蝦 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hy/hii'hee ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: fish and shrimp

EDUTECH_GTW (1)

hihee 魚蝦 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hy/hii'hee ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

Embree (1)

hee-hii 蝦魚 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hee'hii ⬆︎ [[...]][i#] [p.81]: N/Ich bé : either of two genera of shrimp fish or armor fish, family Centriscidae; 蝦魚

Lim08 (1)

u: hii'hee zuie'zud ⬆︎ 魚蝦水卒 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.619] [p.619] [#FHL][#CT]: 魚類；魚族。 <>

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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.