Cantonese words starting with L
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老骨頭老骨头
lou5 gwat1 tau4weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)
老撾老挝
lou5 gwo1Laos
魯國鲁国
lou5 gwok3Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝|周朝[Zhou1 chao2], located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1], birthplace of Confucius
魯國人鲁国人
lou5 gwok3 jan4person from Shandong
老客
lou5 haak3peddler
老客兒老客儿
lou5 haak3 ji4erhua variant of 老客[lao3 ke4]
老坑
lou5 haang1old people
老坑婆
lou5 haang1 po2a derogatory term to address an old woman [colloquial]
老閪
lou5 hai1old cunt; old pussy [colloquial]
老黑
lou5 hak1(coll.) black person
老行尊
lou5 hang4 zyun1an expertise of a specialty (spoken)
老氣橫秋老气横秋
lou5 hei3 waang4 cau1old and decrepit
老兄
lou5 hing1elder brother (often used self-referentially); buddy
老河口
lou5 ho4 hau2see 老河口市[Lao3 he2 kou3 Shi4]
老河口市
lou5 ho4 hau2 si5Laohekou, a county-level city in Xiangyang City 襄陽市|襄阳市[Xiang1 yang2 Shi4], Hubei
老鄉老乡
lou5 hoeng1fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
魯凱族鲁凯族
lou5 hoi2 zuk6Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
老漢老汉
lou5 hon3old man
老糠都搾出油老糠都榨出油
lou5 hong1 dou1 zaa3 ceot1 jau4to be overly tight with money; to squeeze every drop of money from someone who is already very poor [colloquial]
老行專老行专
lou5 hong4 zyun1an expert in a particular field
老好人
lou5 hou2 jan4one who tries never to offend anybody
老人
lou5 jan4old man or woman; one's aged parents or grandparents
魯人鲁人
lou5 jan4person from Shandong; stupid person
老人家
lou5 jan4 gaa1(noun) General term to call a senior
老人院
lou5 jan4 jyun2nursing home
擄人勒贖掳人勒赎
lou5 jan4 lak6 suk6to kidnap for ransom
老人星
lou5 jan4 sing1Canopus
老人成嫩仔
lou5 jan4 sing4 nyun6 zai2rejuvenation
老人精
lou5 jan4 zing1describes a child who acts like an adult; a young but worldly person
老人中心
lou5 jan4 zung1 sam1an eldery centre [written and colloquial]
老一輩老一辈
lou5 jat1 bui3older generation
老一套
lou5 jat1 tou3the same old stuff
老友鬼鬼
lou5 jau2 gwai2 gwai2Old Buddies
老油條老油条
lou5 jau4 tiu2old fox; slick customer
老油子
lou5 jau4 zi2(coll.) wily old fox
老友
lou5 jau5old friend
老友記老友记
lou5 jau5 gei3very close friend [written and colloquial]
姥爺姥爷
lou5 je4(coll.) mother's father; maternal grandfather
老爺老爷
lou5 je4(noun) honorific term for a wife to call her husband's father
老爺車老爷车
lou5 je4 ce1old car
老爺爺老爷爷
lou5 je4 je2(coll.) father's father's father
老爺嶺老爷岭
lou5 je4 leng5Chinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok
老爺子老爷子
lou5 je4 zi2my (your etc) old father
老嘢
lou5 je5old man (impolite term)
老野
lou5 je5old man (impolite term)
老二
lou5 ji2second-eldest child in a family
老兒老儿
lou5 ji4father; old man
老而不
lou5 ji4 bat1a licentious old man
魯爾河鲁尔河
lou5 ji5 ho4Ruhr River, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany
老煙槍老烟枪
lou5 jin1 coeng1heavy smoker; life-long smoker
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