粵

奀ngan1挑tiu1鬼gwai2命ming6

ngan1 tiu1 gwai2 ming6ngan1 tiu1 gwai2 meng6dí tiāo guǐ mìng

English

  1. exceptionally and unattractively thin and weak
  2. extremely skinny and frail; a bag of bones; literally: thin and phantom-like

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 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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