Taishan Phrases 13

this is from a thread I started in the Taishan group of Facebook.  Facebook is changing their group formats and my Taishan phrases thread will be archived and no longer easily accessible.  So I thought I'd dump it all here.  This is the thirteenth page:

*Qi Liu Has anyone mentioned this:

bang kei very descrīptive, literally meaning to stand by leaning, expression for ladder, but also used for stairs.

I wonder if it's uniquely Taishanese or Siyi dialect, or used in other dialects too. *Lou Liu

(low liu)

to cheat someone.

Keiuh ei ge lou liu ngoi!

He cheated me! *Pao ahk fai -- Hou Sai Gai

(pow ok fai, ho sy guy)

To run fast and win

(as opposed to 'you snooze, you loose') *Thlu Duhk ah

(thloo dook ah)

To look exactly alike.

nihn ge bahm gih thlu dukh ah nei!

That bum looks exactly like you Ja bee

To yap or chit chat

kehk oh ning ja bee ja oh hang thlai!

They are yapping nonstop When I was little a boy, my uncle the chef use to say this when we did not behave. While holding a butcher knife.

Jum ne gor deck doi!

Cut your dick off!

=X * * *Linda Lam this is a phrase my grandma liked saying:

cza qian guoan guoan (show off)

hor bao mao yit moon (wallet does not have one dollar)

Here is a link to a chinese slang dictionary. Cantonese but can easily be switched to toisanese: http://www.asiancrime.org/pdfdocs/AsianGangSlang.pdf *@nicole

did you mean 'sa-bih'? know one here knows of 'ja-bih' (duanfen accent?)

Sa Bih

(sa-bee)

to talk nonsense or jokingly *Nicole Lee Vecchione Huhm... Maybe, my uncles are very old-school hoysan ngen and they always say "ja bih", but they mean chitchating, like "kehk ban nui dui seang nguk hai sik ja bih".... Interesting... *Joh Chui Joh Lohng

(Jaw Chuey Jaw Long)

To make clutter, To have things in the way *lihn gahng gahng

(leen gahng gahng)

to be naked (male) *yiu gou meng...

still have not.... *ah chuht

(ah choot)

to expose

ah chuht neige sihuhn

to expose your butt *kei kou

(kay ko)

strange, unusual *ohn siu gu.....

(awn siu goo)

to go about something without being too careful.

oh siu gu gong

to say something without thinking *nuht

(noot)

to be afraid *hahn pei

(hon pay)

to be frugal

(literal: save the skin) *Nga Ha

Downstairs *Ngeh Hao

inside *kihn kihn(keen keen)

nearby *chai thlihm gohn

(chai thleem gawn)

literal: to step on the heart and liver

to express hate to someone *ieng fohng

place; space

aiya...koi ge ieng fohng yiu hou oh liu doi! *siang ngiht uht ou (ah) nin

(siang ngeet oot (ah) oh neen)

to sit there all day *Sau Thlei ah...

(Sow Thlay Ah)

to be worried to death of something wrong going to happen *lai yiu

close companion

kui yimi hoh ga gao du lai yiu

she always considers her dog her friend *gahp ngahng

to intentionally do something on purpose. *gahn sai liao

bad habit *lui hao

(looey how)

(literal: donkey head???)

poorly built, clumsy *dui

(duey)

v. to hand something over in a pushy way and in your face

kui hoh nihn jiang bou jih dui goh loi

to obstruct and entrance or roadway

nin ga foh che dui goh ngoi ga mohn hao *thlin lahng (ah)

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