烏狗

See also: 乌狗

Chinese

		a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	dog
trad. (烏狗)		烏	狗
simp. (乌狗)		乌	狗
alternative forms		黑狗

Etymology

"stout, Guinness"

From the use of animals on Guinness packaging for exported stout to represent the local distributor of each country (a black dog for Malaysia, a wolf ("red-tongued dog") for Singapore, and a cat for Indonesia).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o͘-káu

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘-káu
    • Tâi-lô: oo-káu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: o'kao
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Penang): /ɔ³³⁻²¹ kau⁴⁴⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁵³/

Noun

烏狗

1. (literally) black dog
2. (Malaysia) stout, especially Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
3. (Taiwanese Hokkien) a player, a womanizer, a bad boy
4. (Taiwanese Hokkien) a man who is fashionable, trendy or popular

Synonyms

• (stout): Synonyms: 黑狗啤, (Singapore) 紅舌狗／红舌狗

Coordinate terms

• 烏貓／乌猫 (“fashionable/trendy/popular woman”)

Derived terms

• 烏狗兄／乌狗兄

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “烏狗”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• “Entry #6263”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors (2021), “Chapter 5 Native Lexical Innovation in Penang Hokkien: Thinking beyond Rojak”, in Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎^[2], Brill, →ISBN, page 178