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zhaekoef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

a kind of cucumber with sponge texture; Ridged Gourd; Luffa; Lufah; long soft cucumber; much used as a vegetable; a dishcloth gourd

菜瓜; 絲瓜

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Bagciw hoe'hoef, puar khvoarzøx zhaekoef./Bagciw hoe'hoef, puar khvoarzøex zhaekoef. 🗣 (u: Bak'ciw hoef'hoef, puu'ar khvoax'zøx/zøex zhaix'koef.) 目睭花花，匏仔看做菜瓜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

揶揄人看錯東西 。

Laang na soef, zexng puar svef zhaekoef./Laang na soef, zexng puar svy zhaekoef. 🗣 (u: Laang na soef, zexng puu'ar svef/svy zhaix'koef.) 人若衰，種匏仔生菜瓜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻人的運氣不佳 ， 倒楣透頂 。

phveoo-zhaekoef 🗣 (u: phvee'oo-zhaix'koef) 澎湖菜瓜 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

稜角絲瓜 、 角瓜 。 瓜果類 。 是澎湖特產的絲瓜 ， 外表有條溝狀花紋 ， 下大上小 ， 呈圓錐狀 。 質脆味美 ， 和臺灣絲瓜大相逕庭 。 因為有十個稜角 ， 所以又叫 「 十捻 」 ， 和 「 雜念 」 諧音 ， 有句歇後語 「 澎湖菜瓜——十捻 」 ， 就是從這個意象引申出來的 。

zhaekoef 🗣 (u: zhaix'koef) 菜瓜 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

絲瓜 。 瓜果類 。 一年生草本 ， 果實長形 ， 嫩時可供食用 ， 成熟後內多網狀纖維 ， 可以用來做菜瓜布 。

zhaekoef-poo 🗣 (u: zhaix'koef-poo) 菜瓜蒲 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

菜瓜布 。 熟透而未被採收的絲瓜 ， 老化乾枯後所留下的纖維脈絡 ， 可用來刷洗汙垢 。

zhaekoef-pox 🗣 (u: zhaix'koef-pox) 菜瓜布 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

用絲瓜纖維製成的清潔用具 ， 今多以化學合成原料製成 。

zhaekoef-zhex 🗣 (u: zhaix'koef-zhex) 菜瓜摖 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

絲瓜熟透而未經採收 ， 老化乾枯後所留下的纖維脈絡 ， 可用來刷洗汙垢 ， 廣被用為清洗或盥洗用具 。

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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.