吃瓜群众 (吃瓜群眾)
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Pinyin
Definition
吃瓜群众 (吃瓜群眾)
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- peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
- onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it
- (neologism c. 2016)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to eat
- 2 to consume
- 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- 4 to eradicate
- 5 to destroy
- 6 to absorb
- 7 to suffer
- 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
- 1 to have a meal
- 2 to eat
- 3 to make a living
- 1 crowd
- 1 idiot
- 2 fool
- 1 wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida)
- 2 white gourd
- 3 white hairy melon
- 4 Chinese squash
Idioms (20)
三五成群
- 1 in groups of three or four (idiom)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
傲视群伦
- 1 outstanding talent (idiom)
- 2 incomparable artistic merit
- 3 accomplishment out of the ordinary
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
卓乎不群
- 1 standing out from the common crowd (idiom); outstanding
- 2 preeminent