鬼佬月餅——悶極

Chinese
 
gweilo; "foreign devil"; Caucasian; whitey
 mooncake melancholy; smother; stuffy
 
utmost; pole; extreme; to reach the limit
trad. (鬼佬月餅——悶極) 鬼佬 月餅 —— 悶 極
simp. (鬼佬月饼——闷极) 鬼佬 月饼 —— 闷 极
variant forms 番鬼佬月餅——悶極／番鬼佬月饼——闷极
Literally: “foreigner's mooncake—very bored”.

Etymology

A xiehouyu, from the fact that Cantonese 悶極 (mun6 gik6) sounds like English mooncake.

Pronunciation

Idiom

鬼佬月餅——悶極

  1. (Cantonese, xiehouyu) very bored
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