事頭婆

See also: 事头婆

Chinese

 
(Cantonese) boss; store manager; master; owner
grandmother; matron; mother-in-law
trad. (事頭婆) 事頭
simp. (事头婆) 事头

Pronunciation


Noun

事頭婆

  1. (Cantonese) proprietress, boss's wife, a female boss
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) Queen Elizabeth II of England

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 老闆娘 (“proprietress”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 老闆娘
Mandarin Beijing 老闆娘
Taiwan 老闆娘
Cantonese Guangzhou 事頭婆老闆娘
Hong Kong 事頭婆老闆娘
Taishan 事頭婆
Gan Nanchang 老闆娘老闆娘子
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 頭家娘
Liudui (S. Sixian) 頭家娘
Hsinchu (Hailu) 頭家娘
Dongshi (Dabu) 頭家娘
Hsinchu (Raoping) 頭家娘
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 頭家娘
Jin Taiyuan 老闆娘女掌櫃女掌櫃的
Min Dong Fuzhou 老闆嫂
Min Nan Xiamen 頭家娘
Quanzhou 頭家娘
Zhangzhou 頭家娘
Taipei 頭家娘
Kaohsiung 頭家娘
Penang 頭家娘頭家嫂
Philippines (Manila) 頭家娘
Wu Shanghai 老闆娘老闆娘娘
Xiang Changsha 老闆娘
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