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ciah bøe puii. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ciah be puii.; ciah bøe puii. ⬆︎ [[...]]

eat without getting fat, eats but doesn't grow or put on weight

吃不肥

ciaqpuii, zawsarn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ciah'puii, zao'sarn ⬆︎ [[...]]

What one gains cannot cover the losses. not worth the effort (Lit. intend to eat to get fat, but in running to the eating place, run yourself thin)

得不償失

juo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: juo; (luo) ⬆︎ [[...]]

surpass, more, further

愈,越,更

Lie na ciah baq øe juo puii. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie na ciah baq e juo (luo) puii.; Lie na ciah baq øe juo puii. ⬆︎ [[...]]
If you eat meat, you will get fatter.
你若吃肉會更胖。

Y na lym ciuo, e juo aix kofng'oe. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y na lym ciuo, e juo aix korng'oe. ⬆︎ [[...]]
When he drinks, he becomes more talkative.
他要是喝酒,會越喜歡講話。

lahsab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: laq'sab ⬆︎ [[...]]

dirty, unclean

骯髒

Lahsab ciah, lahsab puii, zhengkhix ciah, bak thofluii (thor bak luii) [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Laq'sab ciah, laq'sab puii, zhefng'khix ciah, bak thor'luii (thor bak luii) ⬆︎ [[...]]
Eat unclean food, and you get fat, Eat clean food, and your eyes might still bulge out unhealthily, Don't be choosey.
吃的不必太講究,應隨遇而安。

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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).
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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.