Citations:zhuangbility

English citations of zhuangbility

Noun: (China, Internet slang, vulgar) faking it, pretentiousness; from Chinese 裝屄／装屄 (zhuāngbī) +‎ -bility

• 2010, Kai Du, Yinyin Cai, “Culture and high education in China”, in International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, →DOI:

  Because of zhuangbility in diploma and tutors, many excellent students are crowded out of higher education.

• 2019, “Trade Deficit: Chinese Exported into English”, in T. R. Mwanaka, editor, Nationalism: (mis)understanding Donald Trump's Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars‎^[1], volume 2, →ISBN:

  Jennifer enjoys playing zhuangbility. She is nobody but a sexretary.

• 2020, Ou Ning, Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction‎^[2], →ISBN, page xliii:

  To me, what Tolstoy did was simply “class transvestitism,” a kind of zhuangbility (a coined word mixing Chinese and English, which roughly means being pretentious) in disguise, because differences in family background, education, and ability cannot be concealed.

• (Can we date this quote?), Jiong Jiong You Yao, chapter 254, in Perfect Secret Love: The Bad New Wife is a Little Sweet, →ISBN:

  Ay, truly, zhuangbility leads to leipility!