囉柚
See also: 啰柚
Chinese
phonetic | pomelo; shaddock | ||
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trad. (囉柚) | 囉 | 柚 | |
simp. (啰柚) | 啰 | 柚 | |
alternative forms | 籮柚/箩柚 𦣇柚/𬂂柚 欏柚/椤柚 囉友/啰友 |
Etymology
Variant of 碌柚 (luk1 jau6-2, “pomelo”) (Tsang, 2008). The sense of “buttocks” comes from the resemblance with a pomelo (Mai and Tan, 2016).
Pronunciation
Noun
囉柚
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 柚子 (“pomelo”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 屁股 (“buttocks”) [map]
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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