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廢fai3老lou5

fai3 lou5fèi lǎoinferred

English

  1. derived from 廢青, it means the elderly who are no better than the purportedly useless younger generation; roughly corresponds to "boomer"

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 由廢青演變出嚟,指啲有口話人無口話自己嘅老一輩

Examples

  • 班廢老終日無所事事,至叻就係批鬥啲後生仔。

    Those boomers just sit around doing nothing all day, yet they take great pleasure in criticizing the younger generation.

Sources: rime-cantonese, synthesized, words.hk

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