「黐鳩線」嘅委婉詞，原本係語氣好重咁話人#黐線，但轉變成黐膠花就多咗一份諧趣。 睇埋 #膠 (euphemism for "short fucking circuit," that is used to scold someone as "fucking crazy," but when downplayed as "assemble plastic flower" (i.e. euphemised to something like "fecking crazy"), it becomes much less hostile and a bit amusing.)
形容詞嚇死人咩！你都黐膠花嘅。
haak3 sei2 jan4 me1! nei5 dou1 ci1 gaau1 faa1 ge3.
That scared me to death ! You're freaking crazy.
指組裝黏合塑膠花；香港6,70年代輕工業發達，好多家庭會接工廠外發訂單返屋企做以幫補家計，膠花製作係最容易做嘅一種，老人細路都做到，連香港首富李嘉誠都曾經參與其中。 (to glue up plastic flowers; in 1960-70s Hong Kong, light industry arose where many families took up the outsourced production of the factories to earn some extra income, and, as assembling plastic flowers was the easiest task, both the elderly and children were able to do it, and even Hong Kong's wealthiest man, Lee Ka Sing, was among those who had taken part.)
動詞嗰陣我哋一家五口住一間板間房，放學返嚟仲要幫手黐膠花。
go2 zan2 ngo5 dei6 jat1 gaa1 ng5 hau2 zyu6 jat1 gaan1 baan2 gaan3 fong2, fong3 hok6 faan1 lei4 zung6 jiu3 bong1 sau2 ci1 gaau1 faa1.
In those days all 5 of our family lived in a board-partitioned room. After school we still had to help glue together plastic flowers.
「黐鳩線」嘅委婉詞，原本係語氣好重咁話人#黐線，但轉變成黐膠花就多咗一份諧趣。 睇埋 #膠 (euphemism for "short fucking circuit," that is used to scold someone as "fucking crazy," but when downplayed as "assemble plastic flower" (i.e. euphemised to something like "fecking crazy"), it becomes much less hostile and a bit amusing.)
形容詞嚇死人咩！你都黐膠花嘅。
haak3 sei2 jan4 me1! nei5 dou1 ci1 gaau1 faa1 ge3.
That scared me to death ! You're freaking crazy.
指組裝黏合塑膠花；香港6,70年代輕工業發達，好多家庭會接工廠外發訂單返屋企做以幫補家計，膠花製作係最容易做嘅一種，老人細路都做到，連香港首富李嘉誠都曾經參與其中。 (to glue up plastic flowers; in 1960-70s Hong Kong, light industry arose where many families took up the outsourced production of the factories to earn some extra income, and, as assembling plastic flowers was the easiest task, both the elderly and children were able to do it, and even Hong Kong's wealthiest man, Lee Ka Sing, was among those who had taken part.)
動詞嗰陣我哋一家五口住一間板間房，放學返嚟仲要幫手黐膠花。
go2 zan2 ngo5 dei6 jat1 gaa1 ng5 hau2 zyu6 jat1 gaan1 baan2 gaan3 fong2, fong3 hok6 faan1 lei4 zung6 jiu3 bong1 sau2 ci1 gaau1 faa1.
In those days all 5 of our family lived in a board-partitioned room. After school we still had to help glue together plastic flowers.
Original phonetic: /t͡sʰiː⁵⁵ kaːu̯⁵⁵ faː⁵⁵/
to make plastic flowers
freaking crazy; freaking insane