「番鬼佬月餅」
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| Pronunciation： | faan1 gwai2 lou2 jyut6 beng2 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
番 a measure word; to return; to go back; foreign; alien; score of mahjong; anime 鬼 ghost; spirit; traitor; the rat; joker; awful; dreadful 佬 guy; fellow; man; chap; a middle-aged man 月 moon; mooncake; month of a year 餅 biscuit; cake |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Explanation： |
bored, fed-up; a pun between "mooncake" and the expression 悶極 (mun6 gik6) meaning "extremely bored"; literally: foreigners' mooncake
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