Cantonese words starting with L

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lau6 fu2 cung1 gei1

漏脯充飢漏脯充饥

lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom)

to leak out; leakage

missed; left out; a missed opportunity

The Burrow (Harry Potter)

lau6 gin1 bong2

sloping shoulders; work-shy

with nothing left; to be bare; to be very smooth; sleek

to stammer [colloquial]

lau6 hau2 fung1

漏口風漏口风

one's word exposing secrets (spoken)

slow and sluggish (personality)(Cantonese)

lau6 hon5 bing1

roller blading (sport)

(coll.) to slink off

oil spill; oil leak

(verb) overnight

perfectly round

objectionable practices

a crack or a leak; a loophole; a flaw

yo-yo (loanword)

to slip through the net

lau6 mong5 zi1 jyu4

漏網之魚漏网之鱼

lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom)

to flatter obsequiously

lau6 san4 ok3 saat3

兇神惡煞凶神恶煞

to look fierce and intimidating [written and colloquial]

(of pipes, ceilings, roofs etc) to leak water; to have a water leak

lau6 seoi2 zyun2 wan4 tin1 ji4

漏水轉渾天儀漏水转浑天仪

water-driven armillary sphere (Zhang Heng's famous astronomical apparatus)

a leak (e.g. of chemicals)

lau6 sit3 tin1 gei1

漏洩天機漏泄天机

to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret

lau6 sou1 paak3 maa5

溜鬚拍馬溜须拍马

to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants; boot-licking

humble dwelling

(dialect) to take a walk

遛彎兒遛弯儿

erhua variant of 遛彎|遛弯[liu4 wan1]

colander; sieve

corrupt practice; malpractice

(dialect) finger ring

(modal final particle similar to 呢ne [呢] or 啦la [啦])

(final particle); noise

sloppy; shaggy (spoken)

(dialect) to cry; to whimper

ignorant; stupid; doltish; to bind

thoughtless; stupid and dull; a summer hat

to hide [colloquial]

to hide oneself ; to keep oneself to oneself [colloquial]