粵

擾jiu2民man4

simp扰民
jiu2 man4rǎo mín

English

  1. (of government policy, noise pollution, crime etc) to make people's lives difficult
  2. to cause public disturbance

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 某啲拎附近民眾受負面影響嘅行為或者決定,或者令市民覺得好煩、冇必要嘅政策

Examples

  • 佢哋每晚都開大喇叭唱埋同一啲歌,仲要着到鬼五馬六,你話係咪擾民?

    Those are the folks that keeps looping the same list of songs at maximum volume in neon costume, ain't that a pickle for the whole neighborhood?

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

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