學究
simp学究hok6 gau3xué jiū
English
- pedant
- 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
- 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