乞食: Definitions and Translations

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)

Definitions (粵典–words.hk)

Definitions (Wiktionary)

verb, Cantonese, literary
to beg for food
(syn.) 討飯, 討米, 要飯, 討食, 乞食, 乞米, 搝米
noun, Hakka, Min, dialectal
beggar
(syn.) 攞食佬 male, 乞丐, 乞兒佬, 絡食個, 討食個, 攞食伊, 看街的, 絡食哩, 取米丐兒, 乞達, 抄花子, 乞食仔, 討飯漢, 乞米仔, 討米個, 攞食哎, 丐者, 仙人, 告花嫚嫚, 討飯佬, 教化子, 要飯兒的, 要乜貼的, 告化子, 教化, 乞米佬 male, 攞食婆 female, 尋口, 化子, 告化佬, 打幫仔, 要要吃, 癟三, 討飯子, 討飯的, 乞食婆 female, 狗化公, 告化, 乞吃佬, 告化哩, 要飯的, 攞食的, 要飯哩, 教化仔, 討飯人, 丐米佬, 要饃饃的, 分食的, 討飯老丐兒, 要飯花子, 尋饃的, 討飯唉, 攞食仔 young, 乞人, 討吃, 討飯丐兒, 取米個, 告花子, 乞米婆 female, 攞食, 討飯個, 花子, 叫化, 叫化子, 酌食哩, 討飯佬 humorous, 丐, 乞食, 要窩窩哩, 架化佬, 告化仔, 靠門傍子, 抱火盆兒的, 討飯, 乞兒佬 male, 掛花子, 告殼子, 要飯人, 丐兒, 覓吃佬, 討飯仂, 乞耳, 救化子, 老花子, 要的吃的, 乞食佬, 要飯吃哩, 化食, 睡門樓的, 乞兒, 要飯吃的, 討米的, 攞食佬, 分米的, 狗化佬, 乞吃, 叫化佬, 討食佬, 攞食仔, 討飯鬼 derogatory, 討口子, 丐食, 討吃吃, 酌食個, 討食告化, 乞食佬 male, 乞兒婆 female, 叫花子, 討吃子, 乞食仔 young

Definitions (Kaifangcidian)

Examples (粵典–words.hk)

Cantonese
忠忠直直，终须乞食；奸奸狡狡，朝鱼晚炒。
忠忠直直，終須乞食；奸奸狡狡，朝魚晚炒。
zung1 zung1 zik6 zik6, zung1 seoi1 hat1 sik6. gaan1 gaan1 gaau2 gaau2, ziu1 jyu4 maan5 caau2.
- Honesty leads to poverty. Trickery gives you a life of luxury.
Cantonese
忠忠直直终须乞食。
忠忠直直終須乞食。
zung1 zung1 zik6 zik6 zung1 seoi1 hat1 sik6.
- Being honest and upright, you will end up being a beggar.
Cantonese
我系屋邨仔出身，二仔底，唔勤力啲实听乞食。
我係屋邨仔出身，二仔底，唔勤力啲實聽乞食。
- I came from public housing and was dealt a bad hand in life, so I have to work twice as hard or I'll be begging on the streets.
Cantonese
再揾唔到嘢做就真系要乞食喇！
再揾唔到嘢做就真係要乞食喇！
zoi3 m4 wan2 dou2 je5 zou6 zau6 zan1 hai6 jiu3 hat1 sik6 laa3!
- If I can't find a job, I might have to to beg for food!
Cantonese
以前对面间酒楼𠮶个无良雇主而家折堕到要乞食啊。
以前對面間酒樓嗰個無良僱主而家折墮到要乞食啊。
ji5 cin4 deoi3 min6 gaan1 zau2 lau4 go2 go3 mou4 loeng4 gu3 zyu2 ji4 gaa1 zit3 do6 dou3 jiu3 hat1 sik6 aa3.
- The owner of that restaurant who used to cheat his employees now end up begging on the street as if punished by divine retribution.

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