pan3 faan6噴飯喷饭
Jyutpingpan3 faan6
Yalepan faahn
Definition
To involuntarily spray rice from one's mouth upon hearing something hilarious while eating.
colloquialfoodemotion
How it's used
While this term literally describes spraying rice from one's mouth, it is used figuratively to describe any situation where someone laughs so hard they lose composure while eating or drinking. It carries a sense of sudden, uncontrollable reaction to something absurd or hilarious. It is a vivid way to emphasize that a joke or comment was genuinely unexpected and funny.
Examples
His joke was so funny that I sprayed my rice everywhere.
Can you stop being so funny when I'm eating, I'm spraying my rice!
Related words
Common phrases
laughing so hard that one sprays food
Common mistake
Do not use this to describe just any laughter. It specifically implies that the person was in the middle of eating or drinking, making it a messy and socially awkward moment.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
