粵

牛ngau4鬼gwai2蛇se4神san4

ngau4 gwai2 se4 san4niú guǐ shé shén

English

  1. evil monsters
  2. villians; freaks; rabbles; political heretics, especially refering to anti-Maoists during the Cultual Revolution
  3. (fig.) bad characters
  4. (political) bad elements
  5. soldiers in hell, especially Buddhism, Taoism ----
  6. a word used in Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), means everything bad, including but not limited to gangs, scholars, land lords, even sculptures, tradition

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 道教、佛教中陰間嘅鬼卒
  2. 十年浩劫中常用嘅詞語，泛指一切唔好嘅野，黑幫、學者、地主以至神像、習俗

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

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