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DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
(Cantonese) (of a woman) to direct a coquettish look, comment or gesture at a guy
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Original source entry:

拋生藕 抛生藕 [pao1 sheng1 ou3] /(Cantonese) (of a woman) to direct a coquettish look, comment or gesture at a guy/

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Other forms in these source records: 拋生藕

  • 抛
    pāo

    to throw / to toss / to fling / to cast / to abandon

  • 生
    shēng

    to grow / to give birth / to produce / to be born / to arise / to occur / to light (a fire) / to live / to be alive / life / raw / uncooked / unprocessed / unfamiliar / strange / (bound form) student / person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life / lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very / intensely (as in 生疼[shēng téng]) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[shēng lā yìng zhuài])

  • 藕
    ǒu

    root of lotus

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