粵

學hok6究gau3

simp学究
hok6 gau3xué jiū

English

  1. pedant
  2. erudite person rich in by-the-book knowledge (sometimes with negative connotations such as "being inflexible when it comes to the application of knowledge")

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 讀咗好多書、好有學識嘅人;有陣時可以有負面意思,話嗰個人淨係識得讀死書。

Examples

  • 嗰個教授係一個老學究,都唔識變通。

    That professor is an old by-the-book scholar. He's so inflexible.

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

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