ambâc
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Macanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]ambâc
- to bully, to take advantage of someone's good faith, weakness or innocence
- Vôsse ambâc iou!
- You're bullying me!
References
[edit]- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “ambá, ambaque”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 158
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#a