Word of the day / lê-á kha

Word of the day / lê-á kha

lê-á kha
It's a style of vender cart in the old times. Basically venders could transport food or goods on a simple cart such as a bicycle or adding two wheels onto a hand-pushed cart for easier mobile ability.

- Hit ê á-peh í-tsîng sī sak lê-á kha ta̍k-ūi leh bē gín-á ê tshit-thô mih.
= That man used to push a lê-á khan everywhere to sell kids toys.


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Word of the day / tuì-tâng

Word of the day / tuì-tâng

tuì-tâng

I heard this term in a cartoon. 

Here it is:

https://youtu.be/kjFj7APhWmI?t=4m6s

(It's a great cartoon for learning Tâigí too!!)

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Word of the day / tìu-kiān

Word of the day / tìu-kiān

tìu-kiān
Get upset.

I heard a mom talking about her kid:
"Nā-sī guá bô suî hōo i i beh ài ê mı̍h-kiānn, i tio̍h tī hia tiù-kiān.
If I don't immoderately gives he/her what she wants, he/she would get upset.


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Word of the day / phôo-lóo-phiat-á

Word of the day / phôo-lóo-phiat-á

phôo-lóo-phiat-á = propellor
This is probably influenced by Japanese: プロペラ which of course likely to come from English.
I heard my dad said it when he was playing a helicopter with the grandkids.



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Word of the day / perpetrator

Word of the day / perpetrator

perpetrator = pháinn-lâng, thâi-lâng ê pháinn-lâng

thâi = use a knife to attach, to cut in order to make something die or end its life.

You could thâi-lâng
And you could thâi si-kue
si-kue = water melon

And I realize that there isn't many words in Tâigí that means bad guy. It seems that phiánn-lâng covers criminal, killer, homicide, perpetrator, villain.... and more.
(Is it because most people are nice and there is no need for various words of bad guy, bad person?)

I guess you could always add "iau-siū-kut" kind of term before phiánn-lâng to show how serious the situation is.






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Word of the day / tuì-tâng

Word of the day / tuì-tâng

tuì-tâng

I heard this term on a cartoon. 

Here it is:

https://youtu.be/kjFj7APhWmI?t=4m6s

The dad burst out laughing after hearing the grandfather made a comment. 

tuì-tâng here means precisely, can't agree more. 

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Idiom of the day /

Idiom of the day /
á-pô á tshue-kué ..... tò-thap

â-pô--á = elderly woman
tshue = steam (a cooking method)
kué = rice cake
tò = on the opposite, overturn, invert.
thap = fall down, collapse, sink in, cave in.
tò-thap : it could mean that the middle of the rice cake sunk in, form a puddle kind of sunk hold in the middle. (Normally the top of rice cake should be flat.)
Also use this pun to mean that (this is hard to explain...) not only you didn't get any profit, benefit from investing time and money into something, someone, it ended up cost you more than you wished.










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