敗家 [败－]

Jyutping baai6 gaa1
Pinyin bài jiā

Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. spending extravagantly and wasting one's family's financial resources
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 形容詞
    陀​衰家​，​形容​人​做​咗​啲​嘢​敗​壞家聲​或者​散​盡家財
    to disgrace the family by bringing dishonor, or by bankrupting the family fortune
    • 衰仔，學人吸毒，你真係敗家！
      衰仔，学人吸毒，你真系败家！
      Bad son, take drugs like the others do, you are such a disgrace to the family!
  2. 形容詞
    亂​使​錢
    to spend money (or valuable resources) wastefully
    • 你咁敗家㗎，啲咁貴嘅衫着一次就送俾人。
      你咁败家㗎，啲咁贵嘅衫着一次就送俾人。
      You are so wasteful to give such pricey clothes away after wearing them just once!
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb, intransitive, verb-object
    to make the family fall into reduced circumstances (financially or morally); to squander a family fortune
    • 一年換一部手機，真敗家！
      一年换一部手机，真败家！
      yī nián huàn yī bù shǒu jī ， zhēn bài jiā ！
      Changing to a new phone every year; what a squanderer!
Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
  1. （沒有對應漢語詞彙）
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    衰仔，学人吸毒，你真系败家！
    衰仔，學人吸毒，你真係敗家！
    • Bad son, take drugs like the others do, you are such a disgrace to the family!
  2. Cantonese
    你咁败家㗎，啲咁贵嘅衫着一次就送俾人。
    你咁敗家㗎，啲咁貴嘅衫着一次就送俾人。
    • You are so wasteful to give such pricey clothes away after wearing them just once!
  3. Cantonese
    执输行头惨过败家
    執輸行頭慘過敗家
    • missing out getting to the front is worst than having one's family ruined
  4. Cantonese
    佢正一败家仔嚟㗎，晚晚喺酒吧使几万开Party。
    佢正一敗家仔嚟㗎，晚晚喺酒吧使幾萬開Party。
    keoi5 zing3 jat1 baai6 gaa1 zai2 lai4 gaa3, maan5 maan5 hai2 zau2 baa1 sai2 gei2 maan6 hoi1 paa1 ti4.
    • He's such a wasteful person! He parties every night and spends tens of thousands in clubs.
  5. Cantonese
    败家
    敗家
    baai6 gaa1
    • to corrupt the family; to use up the wealth of one's family
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    败家
    敗家
    bài jiā
    • to squander a family fortune
  2. Mandarin
    一年换一部手机，真败家！
    一年換一部手機，真敗家！
    yī nián huàn yī bù shǒu jī ， zhēn bài jiā ！
    • Changing to a new phone every year; what a squanderer!