囉柚

See also: 啰柚

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology

Variant of 碌柚 (luk¹ jau^6-2, “pomelo”) (Tsang, 2008). The sense of “buttocks” comes from the resemblance with a pomelo (Mai and Tan, 2016).

Pronunciation

Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): lo¹ jau^6-2

(Taishan, Wiktionary): lo² yiu^4*, lau² yiu^4*

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lo¹ jau^6-2
  - Yale: lō yáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lo¹ jau^6-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: lo¹ yeo^6-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔː⁵⁵ jɐu̯²²⁻³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: lo² yiu^4*, lau² yiu^4*
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lᵘɔ⁵⁵ jiu²¹⁻²¹⁵/, /lau⁵⁵ jiu²¹⁻²¹⁵/

Noun

囉柚

(Cantonese, dated, later humorous) pomelo (Classifier: 個／个 c)
(Cantonese) buttocks (Classifier: 個／个 c)

Synonyms

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

Ball, J. Dyer (1908), “Pumelo”, in The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary, third edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, Ld., page 191
Chalmers, John (1907), “Pummelo”, in English and Cantonese Dictionary, seventh edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., page 281
曾子凡 [Tsang Chi Fan] (2008) 《香港粵語慣用語研究》 [A Study of Idiomatic Expressions in Hong Kong Cantonese] (in Chinese), Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, →ISBN, page 90

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