caap3 ngaan5插眼
Jyutpingcaap3 ngaan5
Yalechaap ngáahn
Definition
To poke someone in the eyes with one's fingers.
colloquialbodydaily actions
How it's used
Used primarily as a playful or aggressive threat among friends or children, this action is rarely intended to cause actual harm. It often appears in contexts of roughhousing or teasing where one person tries to annoy another. The term carries a distinctly informal tone and is almost never used in serious physical altercations.
Examples
He always likes to poke people's eyes as a joke.
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with the gaming slang where it refers to placing a ward in a video game to reveal hidden areas on the map.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
