老太婆
lǎo tài pó
Pinyin

Definition

老太婆
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lǎo tài pó
  1. old woman (at times contemptuous)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

tài
  1. 1 highest
  2. 2 greatest
  3. 3 too (much)
  4. 4 very
  5. 5 extremely
lǎo
  1. 1 prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
  2. 2 old (of people)
  3. 3 venerable (person)
  4. 4 experienced
  5. 5 of long standing
  6. 6 always
  7. 7 all the time
  8. 8 of the past
  9. 9 very
  10. 10 outdated
  11. 11 (of meat etc) tough
lǎo gōng
  1. 1 (coll.) husband
lǎo pó
  1. 1 (coll.) wife
lǎo shī
  1. 1 teacher
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 classifier: 位 wèi

Idioms (20)

一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥
yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu
  1. 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤
yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng
  1. 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
三姑六婆
sān gū liù pó
  1. 1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
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

Sample Sentences

八戒嘀咕道:“糟了,方才猴哥打死的,莫非是这老太婆的女儿?!”
Bājiè dígu dào :“zāo le ,fāngcái hóugē dǎsǐ de ,mòfēi shì zhè lǎotàipó de nǚ\'ér ?!”
Pigsy whispered, "Oh no. Do you think the girl Monkey just killed is this woman's daughter?"
老太婆,老头子
lǎotàipó ,lǎotóuzi
Old woman, old man.
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哎呀,老太婆,算了算了,快回去吧!大家都是邻居,这么大吵大闹像什么话?
āiyā ,lǎotàipó ,suànle suànle ,kuài huíqu ba !dàjiā dōu shì línjū ,zhème dàchǎodànào xiàng shénme huà ?
Oh come on, ma'am, forget it! Go back inside! We're all neighbors here. How can you make such a big racket?
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