粵

填tin4鴨aap3

simp填鸭
tin4 aap3tin4 aap2tián yā

English

  1. to force-feed ducks
  2. force-fed duck; cramming
  3. (cooking) stuffed duck
  4. (of education) spoon-feeding; literally, filling-duck
  5. force-fed duck

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 原本指將鐵管大量餵食去谷肥鴨鵝嘅餵飼方式;引申用嚟形容大量灌輸知識,忽略思考、技能、實踐嘅教育手法
  2. 食物名;用鐵管餵食去儲肥嘅鴨(量詞:隻)

Examples

  • 北京填鴨

    Peking Duck

  • 香港嘅教育好填鴨,埋沒咗好多聰明嘅小朋友。

    Hong Kong's education is very "duck-filling". Talents of many brilliant children have gone undiscovered because of that.

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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