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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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quần (“pants”) +‎ què (“crippled”).

Some consider this as a Southern corruption of quần hoè, a kind of pants worn in pre-modern times by women during menstruation, making use of flowers of the Chinese scholar tree to limit bleeding.

Pronunciation

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• (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwən˨˩ kwɛ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA(key): [kwəŋ˦˩ kwɛ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA(key): [wəŋ˨˩ wɛ˨˩]

Noun

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quần què

1. (literally) broken pants, especially pants with one (or both) leg torn off
2. (figurative, chiefly Southern Vietnam, low colloquial, slang) bullshit; rubbish; your ass Đang làm cái quần què gì vậy?What the fuck are you doing?

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