量地官
loeng4 dei6 gun1liàng dì guān
English
- an unemployed person; a jobless person; a hobo; a vagrant
- Surveyor, Lands Department; former Crown Lands and Survey Office, British Hong Kong
- an unemployed person, a jobless person. "Measure" is the homophonic of "pace" in Cantonese. A person paces on street in the office hours, implies that he has no job.
粵語 — Cantonese
- 丈量土地嘅官員;香港指地政總署丈量員,前稱工務司署地政測量處官員
- 指失業、冇嘢做而周街踱(度)嘅人
Examples
佢已經做咗量地官成個月。
He has been out of work for a month.
衞信道係以香港第一名量地官命名。
Wilson Road was named after the first Surveyor General, Wilberforce Wilson. ----
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk