English
- to pull, drag, break off, to pluck (a flower)
- (dialect) to twist; to bend (in order to break sth or form it into a shape)
- (bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient
- stubborn; perverse; contrary
- (verb) 1. quarrel; 2. argue; 3. disagree
- to bend
- to quarrel with someone; to argue with someone
- bent, warped
- to debate; to dispute; to argue
- perverse, obstinate
- bent; deformed
粵語
- 屈曲，折彎
- 同人爭執；同人嘈；同人嗌交；同人嗌烚
- 辯論；爭論
- 本身唔應該係彎嘅物件彎咗或者孿咗，嗰樣物件本身唔應該係噉嘅形狀
Variants
Words containing 拗
- 拗口aau2 hau2
hard to pronounce; awkward-sounding
- 拗數aau3 sou3
disputes; conflicts
- 拗氣aau3 hei3
to feel wronged and act rashly just to vent one's anger or to just make a statement
- 拗斷aau2 tyun5
(dialect) to break (by twisting, bending, snapping etc)
- 爭拗zang1 aau3
argue; argument
- 拗頸aau3 geng2
(slang) to disagree; to argue; to dispute; (adjective) stubborn; argumentative; obstinate
- 拗腰ngaau2 jiu1
to bend backwards
- 拗柴aau2 caai4
to twist the ankle
- 拗撬aau3 giu6
(noun
- 拗頭aau1 tau4
to be completely lost in looking for a solution; literally: to scratch one's head through
- 拗實aau3 sat6
verb; to insist; Adhere to
- 拗直ngaau5 zik6
to "converse" a homosexual into a heterosexual; literally: to bend straight
- 執拗zap1 aau3
stubborn; willful; pigheaded
- 拗彎aau2 waan1
to bend; to crook
- 拗手瓜ngaau5 sau2 gwaa1
(v.) to arm wrestle with someone; to compete with someone.
- 拗不過aau3 bat1 gwo3
can't persuade; unable to make (sb) change their mind; unable to resist (sb)
- 拗口令aau3 hau2 ling6
tongue twister
- 硬拗ngaang6 aau2
(Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu])
- 拗橫aau2 waang4
- 拗陷aau3 haam6
- 違拗wai4 aau2
to disobey; to defy; to deliberately go against (a rule, a convention, sb's wishes etc)
- 拗薑aau2 goeng1
- 拗軨aau2 ling4
literally the rim is blended (maybe due to crash or external force), can also describe any object moving in non straight line.
- 拗痕aau1 han4
to scratch an itch [colloquial]