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English
Etymology
Partial calque of Cantonese 噏乜春 (ngap1 mat1 ceon1, “what the hell are you babbling about”, literally “what testicles are you babbling about”), where 春 (ceon1) is a homograph meaning both “testicles” and “spring (season)”. By surface analysis, Cantonese up + what + spring.
Phrase
up what spring
- (Hong Kong, colloquial, slightly vulgar) What the hell are you saying?
2017, 港語日報 [KONGISH DAILY] (overall work in Cantonese), →ISBN:相反，好諷刺地，一句Grammar全對嘅句子，有時反而唔知佢Up what spring，例如日文偽文青廢Up系列：「在非洲,每隔一分鐘，就有六十秒過去⋯⋯」
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