Cantonese words starting with L

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lo1 lo1 sou1 sou1

囉囉囌囌啰啰苏苏

To ramble on, chatter, or be long-winded.

Feeling uneasy, anxious, and restless.

The buttocks or backside.

籮Ｐｅｔ箩Ｐｅｔ

Buttocks; bottom.

Buttocks; bum; backside.

To take advantage of someone or gain extra benefits from others.

To talk incessantly, nag, or repeat oneself in an annoying manner.

Wordy, long-winded, or nagging; to talk on and on.

To nag, chatter, or talk on and on in a tedious manner.

To queue for a table at a restaurant, or to take a reserved seat.

Fruit that grows on vines or herbaceous plants rather than trees, such as melons or berries.

Used in the compound word for potter wasp (蜾蠃).

Unpreparedly, hastily, or without planning.

To streak; to run naked in public.

Sloppy, ugly, or embarrassing.

To get a queue ticket, token, or waiting number.

To quit one's job without having another one lined up.

To withdraw money or collect cash.

To become naked or expose one's body.

To win honor and victory, or to claim credit and show off.

Denudation; the process of stripping land bare of its vegetation or soil cover.

To get married without any material assets such as a house, a car, a wedding ceremony, or rings.

lo2 fu2 lei4 san1

To invite trouble; to volunteer for unnecessary tasks that bring hassle or a waste of time.

A hardware-only device, such as a mobile phone or pager sold without a network subscription.

To capture a shot; to frame a shot or take a photo.

To show off or rub salt in someone's wounds when they are going through a difficult time.

lo2 ging2 ding6 zang6 hing3

攞景定贈興攞景定赠兴

A rhetorical question used to stop someone from making inappropriate comments or actions in a given situation.

Communist Party official whose wife and children have moved abroad to reside in a foreign country.

Nude scene in a movie or television show.

lo2 heoi3 tin4 hoi2

Describing someone or something so useless that they should be dumped into the sea.

Paramesotriton; a genus of salamander or newt about ten to twenty centimeters long with a flat head and a ridged back.

To look for trouble, or to cause unnecessary fuss.

攞嚟講攞嚟讲

To bring up unnecessary, trivial, or far-fetched topics; to make a fuss over nothing.

lo2 lei4 san1 fu2

To bring trouble upon oneself; to create unnecessary work or hardship for oneself.

To bring trouble or misfortune upon oneself through one's own actions or words.

攞嚟賤攞嚟贱

To bring trouble or degradation upon oneself; to reap what one sows.

Naked carp (Gymnocypris przewalskii).

Scrofula, particularly as diagnosed in Chinese medicine.

To expose one's body, or to be naked and bare.

lo2 lou6 kwong4

Exhibitionism; a psychiatric condition or compulsive behavior of exposing one's genitals in public.

Rye (Secale cereale).

To take someone's life; to kill.

Bare rock; rock exposed without soil or vegetation cover.

Naked eye; seeing with the unaided eye without using an optical instrument.

To run naked in public.

To win all the glory; to take all the credit.

攞曬彩攞晒彩

To take all the credit or win all the glory.

Naked; bare; stripped to the waist.