quần què
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editquần (“pants”) + què (“crippled”).
Some consider this as a Southern corruption of quần hoè, a kind of pants worn in pre-modern times by women during menstruation, making use of flowers of the Chinese scholar tree to limit bleeding.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit- (literally) broken pants, especially pants with one (or both) leg torn off
- (figurative, chiefly Southern Vietnam, low colloquial, slang) bullshit; rubbish; your ass
- Đang làm cái quần què gì vậy?
- What the fuck are you doing?