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HTB (2)

cytafng kofngsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]: irrelevant; mislead with talk; talk nonsense; try to avoid the main theme by talking about something else (Lit. point to east and talk west); 指東話西
kofngtafng-kofngsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]: chat; talk about many things or about everything and anything; to gossip about others faults (often falsely); 談天說地; 閒聊; 背後批評

Maryknoll (8)

cytafng kofngsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cie'tafng korng'say ⬆︎ [[...]]

irrelevant, mislead with talk, talk nonsense, try to avoid the main theme by talking about something else (Lit. point to east and talk west)

指東話西

kofngtafng kofngsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: korng'tafng korng'say ⬆︎ [[...]]

chat, talk about many things or about everything and anything, to gossip about others' faults (often falsely)

談天說地,閒聊,背後批評

say [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: say; (sef) ⬆︎ [[...]]

west

西

baktafng baksay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bag'tafng bag'say ⬆︎ [[...]]
soiled all over, to be soiled by many things
沾這沾那

ciaqtafng ciaqsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ciah'tafng ciah'say ⬆︎ [[...]]
eat all kinds of things
吃這個吃那個

gi'tafng gisay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: gii'tafng gii'say ⬆︎ [[...]]
very suspicious
疑神疑鬼

khvoartafng-khvoarsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax'tafng khvoax'say; khvoax'tafng-khvoax'say ⬆︎ [[...]]
look in every direction
東瞻西望

kofngtafng kofngsay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: korng'tafng korng'say ⬆︎ [[...]]
talk about many things, about everything and anything, to gossip about other's faults, often falsely
談天說地

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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.