厚多士

Chinese

		generous; thick (for flat things)	toast
trad. (厚多士)		厚	多士
simp. #(厚多士)		厚	多士

Etymology

Corruption of 好多事 (hou2 do1 si6), popularized through a video on YouTube in 2014, in which a woman was yelling this phrase with Mainland accent.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁵ do¹ si^6-2

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hau⁵ do¹ si^6-2
    • Yale: háuh dō sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁵ do¹ si^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo⁵ do¹ xi^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯¹³ tɔː⁵⁵ siː²²⁻³⁵/

Noun

厚多士

1. (Cantonese, literally) thick toast

Adjective

厚多士

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) meddlesome [2010s]