吃瓜群众 (吃瓜群眾)
chī guā qún zhòng
Pinyin

Definition

吃瓜群众 (吃瓜群眾)
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chī guā qún zhòng
  1. peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
  2. onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it
  3. (neologism c. 2016)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

chī
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 to consume
  3. 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  4. 4 to eradicate
  5. 5 to destroy
  6. 6 to absorb
  7. 7 to suffer
  8. 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
chī fàn
  1. 1 to have a meal
  2. 2 to eat
  3. 3 to make a living
rén qún
  1. 1 crowd
shǎ guā
  1. 1 idiot
  2. 2 fool
dōng guā
  1. 1 wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida)
  2. 2 white gourd
  3. 3 white hairy melon
  4. 4 Chinese squash

Idioms (20)

三五成群
sān wǔ chéng qún
  1. 1 in groups of three or four (idiom)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
傲视群伦
ào shì qún lún
  1. 1 outstanding talent (idiom)
  2. 2 incomparable artistic merit
  3. 3 accomplishment out of the ordinary
兔子不吃窝边草
tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
  1. 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
zhuó hū bù qún
  1. 1 standing out from the common crowd (idiom); outstanding
  2. 2 preeminent