脫口秀

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Chinese

to come out of one's mouth; to escape one's lips
to ear; beautiful; elegant
to ear; beautiful; elegant; outstanding; to show; to display; show
 
trad. (脫口秀/脱口秀) 脫口/脱口
simp. (脱口秀) 脱口
Literally: “out-of-mouth show”.

Etymology

脫口秀 has been used to refer to live comedy acts since 1992 or earlier. No later than 2003, it also began to be used to mean talk show. was borrowed, originally in Taiwan, from English show. 脫口 is a phono-semantic matching derived from 脫口而出 (“to say spontaneously”) and — at least for the “talk show” sense — English talk.

Pronunciation


Noun

(deprecated template usage) 脫口秀

  1. stand-up comedy
  2. talk show

Synonyms