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HTB (2)

kau-soasab^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: always sick; never be easy to please; 多病; 毛病多多
soasab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: troublesome; 麻煩

DFT (2)

🗣 kau-soasab 🗣 (u: kau-soaf'sab ⬆︎ ) 厚沙屑 [wt][mo][[MK]] kāu-sua-sap [#]

1. (Adj) sb who is both long-winded and hard to please; both løsøf and high-maintenance || 形容一個人既囉嗦又挑剔，很難伺候。

🗣le: (u: Y cit'kafng'kaux'axm hiaam'tafng'hiaam'say, bok'koaix laang korng y kau'soaf'sab.) 🗣 (伊一工到暗嫌東嫌西，莫怪人講伊厚沙屑。) (他一天到晚嫌東嫌西，難怪人家說他愛挑毛病。)
近義：

🗣 soasab 🗣 (u: soaf'sab ⬆︎ ) 沙屑 [wt][mo][[MK]] sua-sap [#]

1. (Adj) long-winded; wordy; troublesome; pesky; uncandid; indirect and not to the point || 形容人囉嗦，不乾脆。

🗣le: (u: Y zøx'laang cyn høo'sorng, be soaf'sab.) 🗣 (伊做人真豪爽，袂沙屑。) (他為人很爽快，不囉嗦。)

2. (N) fine sand || 細沙。

🗣le: (u: Cid pvoaa hafm'ar soaf'sab cyn ze.) 🗣 (這盤蚶仔沙屑真濟。) (這盤文蛤的細沙很多。)

Maryknoll (2)

soasab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: soaf'sab ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

troublesome

麻煩

kau soasab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kau soaf'sab ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
very unpleasant or troublesome to deal with (e.g., a man who always finds fault)
麻煩多,多病

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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.