爛gag

See also: 烂gag

Chinese

		rotten; decayed; well-cooked rotten; decayed; well-cooked; mushy; broken; bad; to decay; completely	gag; joke
trad. (爛gag)		爛	gag
simp. (烂gag)		烂	gag

Etymology

From 爛／烂 (“rotten; crummy”) + English gag

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁶ gek¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: laan⁶ gek¹
    • Yale: laahn gēk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁶ gek⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: lan⁶ gég¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːn²² kɛːk̚⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 爛gag

1. (Cantonese) bad joke; corny joke; cheesy joke

   CY講完後全場靜默，兩秒後佢自己打圓場話係爛gag，台下觀眾再過3秒先識笑。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   CY讲完后全场静默，两秒后佢自己打圆场话系烂gag，台下观众再过3秒先识笑。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   From: 2016, 李八方, 隔牆有耳：CY爛gag　觀眾5秒先識笑, (deprecated template usage) 蘋果日報 (Apple Daily)

   CY gong² jyun⁴ hau⁶ cyun⁴ coeng⁴ zing⁶ mak⁶, loeng⁵ miu⁵ hau⁶ keoi⁵ zi⁶ gei² daa² jyun⁴ coeng^4-2 waa⁶ hai⁶ laan⁶ gek¹, toi⁴ haa⁶ gun¹ zung³ zoi³ gwo³ 3 miu⁵ sin¹ sik¹ siu³. [Jyutping]

   After CY said this, the whole place was completely silent. Two seconds later, he smoothed things out for himself, saying that it's a cheesy joke, and the audience didn't start laughing until three more seconds later.

Synonyms

• 冷笑話／冷笑话 (lěngxiàohuà)