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bøexpvef`tid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: be'pvef'tid; bøe'pvef/pvy`tid ⬆︎ [[...]]

stingy

吝嗇

chiwbøea u pvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: chiuo'boea u pvef; chiuo'bøea u pvef/pvy ⬆︎ [[...]]

strength of two combatants equal

勢均力敵

pvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pvef; pvef/pvy; (pvy) ⬆︎ [[...]]

make hard or stiff, make tight or rigid, straighten something, to stretch, to pitch, to draw, to pull, to haul, to drag, to cover (umbrella ribs with cloth)

拉緊,繃緊,張蓋

cit teeng phoee pvef cit teeng kud. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cit teeng phoee pvef cit teeng kud.; cit'teeng phøee pvef/pvy cit'teeng kud. ⬆︎ [[...]]
one layer (ply) of skin covering the bones — be only skin and bones
皮包骨

pve'aan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pvef'aan; pvef/pvy'aan ⬆︎ [[...]]

stretch tight, to stretch by applying more tension, to stretch with force in order to make tight

拉緊,張緊

pvekhuy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pvef'khuy; pvef/pvy'khuy ⬆︎ [[...]]

spread, open

強拉開

phøee pvef khaq aan`leq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phoee pvef khaq aan lex; phøee pvef/pvy khaq aan`leq ⬆︎ [[...]]

tighten your skin in preparation for a beating

準備挨打

sarn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sarn ⬆︎ [[...]]

skinny, lean, thin, (cloth) woven too wide and loose, sterile (land)

瘦

siausarn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: siaw'sarn ⬆︎ [[...]]
become haggard, pinched
消瘦

sarn kaq zhwn cit ky kud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sarn kaq zhwn cit ky kud ⬆︎ [[...]]
wasted away to a skeleton
瘦得剩個骨架

sarn kaq cit teeng phoee pvef cit ky kud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sarn kaq cit teeng phoee pvef cit ky kud; sarn kaq cit'teeng phøee pvef/pvy cit'ky kud ⬆︎ [[...]]
Lit. become haggard to the point of being a layer of skin covering a bone — all skin and bones
瘦得成皮包骨

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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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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)
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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.