Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[north]]
Definitions
  1. 1 [[north]]
  2. 2 bāk gok deui lohk → laih chih 北角對落→濑池(例邐) — [next to North Point → Lai Chi] always late (from the name of a once famous restaurant/club in North Point Lai Chi which puns with the phrase "coming late").
  3. 3 bāk gū 北姑 — a woman from the northern part of China (or from anywhere in mainland China), particularly one working in a nightclub in Hong Kong (ad 2.10.2000, A11).
  4. 4 bāk gū dau 北姑寓 — a place where prostitutes from northern China (or from anywhere in mainland China) look for customers in Hong Kong (ad 14.10.2001, A14).
  5. 5 bāk gū gāi 北姑雞 — a prostitute from the northern part of China working in South China or Hong Kong; a woman from mainland China working as a prostitute in Hong Kong.
  6. 6 bāk lauh duhng lāai 北濠洞拉 — a Vietnamese (gwn 2, 4) (the first words of a Hong Kong Government message broadcast in Vietnamese warning Vietnamese "boat-people" not to come to Hong Kong).
  7. 7 bāk lóu 北佬 — a northerner, a man from North China, a man from mainland China (colloquial or derogatory term, ad 24.11.1999, A2).
  8. 8 bāk múi 北妹 — a young woman from mainland China in Hong Kong (often used to refer to mainland women working in a nightclub or as a prostitute).
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