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Chinese
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a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void |
dog
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| trad. (烏狗)
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烏
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狗
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| simp. (乌狗)
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乌
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狗
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| alternative forms
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黑狗
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Etymology
- "stout, Guinness"
- From the use of animals on Guinness packaging for exported stout to represent the local distributor of each country (a black dog for Malaysia, a wolf ("red-tongued dog") for Singapore, and a cat for Indonesia).
Pronunciation
Noun
烏狗
- (literally) black dog
- (Malaysia) stout, especially Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) a player, a womanizer, a bad boy
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) a man who is fashionable, trendy or popular
Synonyms
- (stout): Synonyms: 黑狗啤, (Singapore) 紅舌狗 / 红舌狗
Coordinate terms
- 烏貓／乌猫 (“fashionable/trendy/popular woman”)
Derived terms
References
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “烏狗”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
- “Entry #6263”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
- Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors (2021), “Chapter 5 Native Lexical Innovation in Penang Hokkien: Thinking beyond Rojak”, in Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 ), Brill, →ISBN, page 178