呃蝦條

Chinese

	to fool; to deceive; to swindle	shrimp cracker; prawn cracker
trad. (呃蝦條)	呃	蝦條
simp. (呃虾条)	呃	虾条
Literally: “to swindle shrimp crackers”.

Etymology

Pun on the near homophonous vulgar phrase 呃閪屌 (ngaak1 hai1 diu2, “to fool a girl into having sex with one”, literally “to swindle a vulva in order to fuck it”).

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaak¹ haa¹ tiu^4-2

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngaak¹ haa¹ tiu^4-2
  - Yale: ngāak hā tíu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngaak⁷ haa¹ tiu^4-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngag¹ ha¹ tiu^4-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaːk̚⁵ haː⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯²¹⁻³⁵/

Phrase

呃蝦條

(Cantonese, minced oath, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) to fool a girl into having sex with one

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