石狗公
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English
- rockfish (spoken)
- rockfish ----
- weak, poor, small one pretending to be strong, rich, big
粵語 — Cantonese
- 鮋科一種魚,廣東至台灣常見嘅魚,無乜肉,通常用嚟煲湯。
- 雖然石狗公有 d 似鮨科石斑,但係唔好食唔值錢,比喻扮勁、充大頭鬼
Examples
石狗公充班
someone who is poor pretending to be rich
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk