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Htb (cache) (2)

hofthaau^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

tiger's head

虎頭

hofthaau niawchyboea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

start doing something with vigor but fail to see it through; impressive in the beginning but disappointing in the end

虎頭蛇尾

DFT (5)

hofthaau-phafng 🗣 (u: hor'thaau-phafng) 虎頭蜂 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

胡蜂 、 黃蜂 。 昆蟲名 。 身上有黑黃相間的條紋 ， 腹部尾端的螫針和毒腺相連接 ， 螫人的時候會將毒液注入人體 ， 使人致命 。

hofthaugveh'ar 🗣 (u: hor'thaau'gveq'ar) 虎頭夾仔 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

老虎鉗 、 虎頭鉗 。 用來夾斷鐵絲 、 拔起釘子的鐵製工具 。

hofthaukafm 🗣 (u: hor'thaau'kafm) 虎頭柑 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

瓜果類 。 以柚子或桔子的母株當枮木 ， 再嫁接上柑橘 ， 一株僅可產數十顆 ， 體型大 ， 圓周約有五 、 六十公分 。 以前的虎頭柑因為既酸又澀 ， 多半在年節拜拜的時候做觀賞用 ， 就是 「 金玉其外 ， 敗絮其中 」 的情況 。 改良過後的虎頭柑 ， 則香甜多汁 ， 產量也大為增加 。

Hofthausvoaf 🗣 (u: Hor'thaau'svoaf) 虎頭山 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

附錄 － 地名 － 山脈名

hor-chirnthaau 🗣 (u: hor-chixn'thaau) 唬秤頭 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

偷斤兩 。 指做生意偷斤減兩 ， 占顧客便宜 。

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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.