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Htb (cache) (6)

bøo oe korng kalør [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

chat

無話講家惱; 閒話家常; 閑談

bøo oe thafng korng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

having nothing to say; unable to say anything

無話可講

korng mxcvia'oe [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

conversation disagreeable; without actually quarrelling; have no topics of common interest

糊說八道

korng-tiexn'oe [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

making a phone call

講電話

oe korng-bøextheeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

chatterbox

雜念; 喋喋不休

voa cidkux oe laai korng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

in other words

換句話說

DFT (7)

Ciah laang thaau zefng ciuo, korng laang thaau kux oe. 🗣 (u: Ciah laang thaau zefng ciuo, korng laang thaau kux oe.) 食人頭鍾酒，講人頭句話。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

在宴席上喝第一杯酒 ， 講第一句話 。 意謂具有崇高的身份地位 。

korng toaxsvia'oe 🗣 (u: korng toa'sviaf'oe) 講大聲話 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

說大話 、 吹噓 。

korng-hausiaau-oe 🗣 (u: korng-haw'siaau-oe) 講嘐潲話 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吹牛 、 說大話 、 胡說八道 。

Laang zøe oe tø zøe, safm seg laang korng gvor seg oe. 🗣 (u: Laang zøe oe tø zøe, safm seg laang korng gvor seg oe.) 人濟話就濟，三色人講五色話。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻人多嘴雜 。 各種人說各種意見 。 比喻人多意見多 ， 莫衷一是 。

kef-kofng'oe 🗣 (u: kef-korng'oe) 加講話 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

說了不該說的話 。

kofng'oe 🗣 (u: korng'oe) 講話 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

說話 、 講話 。

Kvoaimngg tiøh zhvoax, kofng'oe tiøh khvoax. 🗣 (u: Kvoay'mngg tiøh zhvoax, korng'oe tiøh khvoax.) 關門著閂，講話著看。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

勸人說話要看時機 ， 否則言多必失 。

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• [Taioaan Wiki]

External Dictionaries in Conventional Romanizations *

• (u) korng oe = kong2 ue7 [[DFT]] [[MK]] [[TC]] [[Lim19]] [[IT講]] [[CT]]

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.