峇峇娘惹
Bā bā Niáng rě
Pinyin
Definition
峇峇娘惹
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- Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 mother
- 2 young lady
- 3 (coll.) effeminate
- 1 to provoke
- 2 to irritate
- 3 to vex
- 4 to stir up
- 5 to anger
- 6 to attract (troubles)
- 7 to cause (problems)
- 1 bride
- 1 my old mother
- 2 I, this old woman
- 3 my old lady (colloquial)
- 4 maternal grandmother
- 5 midwife
Idioms (6)
天要落雨,娘要嫁人
- 1 the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
- 2 fig. the natural order of things
- 3 something you can't go against
惹火烧身
- 1 stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt
- 2 fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
拈花惹草
- 1 lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
- 2 fig. to womanize
- 3 to frequent brothels
- 4 to sow one's wild oats
招风惹草
- 1 to stir up trouble (idiom)
- 2 to sow discord
有奶便是娘
- 1 lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom)
- 2 fig. to follow whoever is feeding you
- 3 to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie