全部都係雞既用語!

Happy Year of the Rooster! 雞年快樂！

Rooster, or Chicken appears in many Cantonese slangs and idioms. Let's take a little quiz to see how well you know your Cantonese gai1! 全部都係雞既用語!

(由於時間關係，答案選擇得雞腸）

Can you spot the alternative definitions?  

People 人物雞: 

1. 馬拉雞

a) A landslide win (horse tug o'war with a chicken) 

b) A female marathoner

c) An unattractively skinny girl

d) A Malaysian chicken dish

2. 鐵嘴雞

a) a whistle

b) Iron Chicken (An upcoming Avenger)

c) A lawyer

d) A female who likes to argue

3. 菠蘿雞

a) Rice and chicken served in a pineapple bowl

b) A person with a spikey hair style

c) A person who likes to leech off of others

d) Chicken sandwiched in a Pineapple Bun  

4. 小學雞

a) Childish

b) Kids learning to become a chicken

c) Chickenpox epidemic in elementary schools

d) A coward

Miscellaneous chicken 立雜雞:

5. 一雞 

a) 1 dollar

b) 10 cents

c) 10 dollars

d) one chicken 

6. 好雞

a) A good chicken

b) Of bad quality

c) Weak sauce 

d) Very revealing

7. 執死雞

a) A chicken recycler

b) Succeeding by your luck and misfortune of someone else

c) Rebound

d) H5N1

8. 騰雞

a) A chicken figurine made out of bamboo

b) A beating/spanking from your parents

c) nervous and frantic 

9. 咪走雞

a) Don't let the chicken out

b) Don't miss out

c) Don't walk like a chicken 

10. 落湯雞

a) Chicken stock

b) Soaked by the rain

c) Homemade soup you drink during an illness

Bonus animal round: 動物常識題: 

Which one is the amphibian, insect, and fish? 

配對：邊隻係青蛙，邊隻係昆蟲，邊隻係魚？

大眼雞 

田雞

龍眼雞