- Meaning: to steal (a small amount or item)
- Synynoms: filch, snitch
- In Hong Kong slang: 撻
- In older Cantonese: 納， 鼠
- In decent Chinese: 偷竊， 盜取， 高買， 不問自取
- Where we first met: information on French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who made La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children, 1995) - 'the story of an evil scientist's plan to pilfer children's dreams'.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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2 comments:
"撻野" 字興起之前, 好似興過一排叫 "洒野" (陽平聲).
「洒」is very old Cantonese, spoken by my parents' generation. I have always been saying that, together with 「納」 and 「鼠」, before「撻」came into existence in the 1990s.
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