毒奶

Chinese

poison; narcotics breast; lady; milk
trad. (毒奶)
simp. #(毒奶)
Literally: “poisonous milk”.

Etymology

From the Chinese community of World of Warcraft, describing an unwanted effect where the healing of a 奶媽奶妈 (nǎimā) (healer) can actually do detriment to a certain kind on character class. Hence, "poisonous milk/healing".

The term later expanded to describe situations where a prediction is bound to bring unwanted detriment to the subject of the perdiction.[1]

Pronunciation


Noun

毒奶

  1. (literally) contaminated milk
  2. (Mainland China, neologism, Internet slang) jinx; curse

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