奀ngan1嫋tiu1鬼gwai2命meng6

simp奀袅鬼命

ngan1 tiu1 gwai2 meng6ngan1 niu1 gwai2 meng6dí niǎo guǐ mìng

English

describes a person (normally female) who is very thin and looking weak; frail (person)
extremely skinny and frail; a bag of bones; literally: thin and phantom-like

粵語 — Cantonese

形容一個人身體孱弱，體型瘦削

Examples

佢細個冇飯食，營養不良，搞到而家廿幾歲人都仲係奀挑鬼命。
He had little to eat and was malnourished during childhood, and consequently is still a bag of bones well in his twenties.

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

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