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Ciuozoa ho padlaang sie. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Ciux'zoa ho pat laang sie.; Ciux'zoa ho pat'laang sie. ⬆︎ [[...]]

to harm someone by association, (because I make a promise difficult to fulfill it also hurts other people who are involved with me or who work with me to complete the promise.)

詛咒別人

Y ciuozoa ho padlaang sie, ka'ti ciaq khia koansvoaf khvoax bea siøthad. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y ciux'zoa ho pat'laang sie, kaf'ti ciaq khia koaan'svoaf khvoax bea siøf'thad. ⬆︎ [[...]]
He made a rash promise and then stood back and watched without lifting a finger.
他詛咒別人死,自己袖手旁觀。

eeng kaq liah satbør siøka [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: eeng kaq liah sad'bør siøf'ka; eeng kaq liah sad'bør/buo siøf'ka ⬆︎ [[...]]

Have time to catch lice and watch them fight each other — don't know what to do with my leisure

無所事事, 閒得無聊

liah satbør siøka [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liah sad'bør siøf'ka; liah sad'bør/buo siøf'ka ⬆︎ [[...]]

catch lice and make them to fight in order to pass the time, nothing to do

捉蝨子相鬥,閒著無聊,無所事事。

long kao siøka [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: long kao siøf'ka ⬆︎ [[...]]

Tease dogs and make them fight. — to cause others to quarrel

挑撥離間

satbør [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sad'bør; (sad'buo) ⬆︎ [[...]]

lice

蝨子

liah satbør siøka [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liah sad'bør siøf'ka; liah sad'bør/buo siøf'ka ⬆︎ [[...]]
Catch lice and make them to fight in order to pass the time, nothing to do
無所事事,閒著無聊之意。

siøka [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: siøf'ka ⬆︎ [[...]]

bite each other

相咬

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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)
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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)
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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.