偷食

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Chinese

to steal; to pilfer
eat; food; to feed
eat; food; to feed; animal feed
 
trad. (偷食)
simp. #(偷食)

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偷食

  1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) to eat on the sly
  2. (literary) to pilfer food; to steal and eat the food
  3. (literary) to get by; to manage to survive
  4. (Cantonese, figurative) to be unfaithful; to two-time

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