Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- kuā
English
- exaggerate
- to boast; to exaggerate
- brag, boast
- to praise
- flaunt
- (of behaviour) over; too much; flamboyant
- exaggerated; excessive
粵語
- 浮誇；形容行為超出可以接受嘅程度
- 講一啲超出實際嘅嘢
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 誇
- 誇張kwaa1 zoeng1
to exaggerate
- 誇大kwaa1 daai6
to exaggerate
- 誇獎kwaa1 zoeng2
to praise
- 浮誇fau4 kwaa1
to exaggerate
- 自誇zi6 kwaa1
to boast
- 誇耀kwaa1 jiu6
to brag about
- 誇口kwaa1 hau2
to boast
- 誇稱kwaa1 cing1
to praise
- 虛誇heoi1 kwaa1
to boast
- 誇讚kwaa1 zaan3
to praise
- 誇啦啦kwaa1 laa1 laa1
fabulous; marvellous
- 誇海口kwaa1 hoi2 hau2
to boast
- 誇大之詞kwaa1 daai6 zi1 ci4
hyperbole
- 誇大其詞kwaa1 daai6 kei4 ci4
to exaggerate
- 誇下海口kwaa1 haa6 hoi2 hau2
see 誇海口|夸海口[kua1 hai3 kou3]
- 誇喇喇kwaa1 laa1 laa1
- 誇張失實kwaa1 zoeng1 sat1 sat6
- 自賣自誇zi6 maai6 zi6 kwaa1
- 誇休可爾症kwaa1 jau1 ho2 ji5 zing3
kwashiorkor (medicine)
- 誇誇其談kwaa1 kwaa1 kei4 taam4
(idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
- 誇誇其談kwaa1 kwaa1 kei4 taam4
(idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
- 誇多鬥靡kwaa1 do1 dau3 mei5
(idiom) to use literary phrases in one's writing to show off one's erudition