粵

水seoi2皮pei4

seoi2 pei4shuǐ pí

English

  1. (slang) referring to someone's skills and quality is poor, bad, inferior or deficient
  2. (of people) poor, weak, mediocre

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 水準低於正常嘅水平

Examples

  • 乜你咁水皮㗎?啲數咁易都唔識計!

    How come you're so poor at doing this? These sums are so easy but you still can't work them out.

  • 甲:「掂呀!勁!好嘢!」。乙:「大家唔好笑我水皮就得嘞。」 (gaap3: "dim6 aa3! ging6! hou2 je5!". jyut3: "daai6 gaa1 m4 hou2 siu3 ngo5 seoi2 pei4 zau6 dak1 laak3.")

    Person A: "Great! Awesome! Good job!". Person B: "As long as everyone doesn't make fun of my clumsiness, that's fine."

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

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