Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[a grandfather]]
Definitions
  1. 1 [[a grandfather]]
  2. 2 yèh choi 爺菜 — [grandfather vegetable] grandmother, a pun based on the fact that yèh 爺 can refer to both a vegetable, as in yèh choi 爺菜, "cabbage" and to grandfather; choi 菜 has the slang meaning of "a girl" or "a woman" viewed as a sexual partner, hence yèh choi 爺菜 means "grandfather's girl", i.e. grandmother.
  3. 3 yèh tiuh 爺/邪條 — a policeman, a police officer (gwdl 39, 35).
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