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Etymology
The sense of "slack off" or "lazy" compares a hibernating snake with human.
Noun
蛇王
- (Cantonese) lazy person
- (Hong Kong) owner of a shop that sells snake soup and catches snakes in the neighborhood
Usage notes
The names of the shops run by snake catchers are usually in the form 蛇王X, where X is one of the characters in the owner's name.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
懶人 (“lazybones; lazy person”)
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| Variety
| Location
| Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) |
懶人, 懶漢, 懶蟲, 懶蟲, 懶骨頭, 懶蛋 |
| Northeastern Mandarin |
Harbin |
懶蛋 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin |
Yantai (Muping) |
懶人, 懶漢, 懶漢子, 懶棒棒子, 懶老婆 female |
| Central Plains Mandarin |
Luoyang |
懶蟲 |
| Wanrong |
懶漢, 懶惰坯 female |
| Southwestern Mandarin |
Wuhan |
懶溜子 |
| Liuzhou |
懶蛇, 墨蛇 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin |
Nanjing |
懶坯, 懶蟲 |
| Cantonese |
Guangzhou |
懶蛇, 蛇王 |
| Hong Kong |
懶蛇, 懶鬼, 懶蟲, 大懶蛇, 懶星 |
| Gan |
Nanchang |
懶人, 懶鬼 |
| Hakka |
Meixian |
懶鬼, 懶屍牯, 懶屍嫲 female |
| Huizhou |
Jixi |
懶坯, 懶骨 |
| Jin |
Taiyuan |
懶蛋 |
| Eastern Min |
Fuzhou |
懶漢, 定蟲 |
| Southern Min |
Xiamen |
貧惰蟲 |
| Quanzhou |
貧惰蟲 |
| Zhangzhou |
貧惰蟲 |
| Tainan |
貧惰骨 GT, 貧惰蟲 GT |
| Manila (Hokkien) |
貧惰蟲 |
| Shantou |
惰囝, 惰儂 |
| Southern Pinghua |
Nanning (Tingzi) |
懶鬼, 懶蟲 |
| Wu |
Shanghai |
懶惰坯, 懶撲鬼, 懶蟲, 懶人 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) |
懶撲 |
| Hangzhou |
懶惰坯, 懶坯, 懶惰鬼 |
| Ningbo |
懶撲, 懶惰坯 |
| Wenzhou |
懶人, 懶牌人 |
| Xiang |
Changsha |
懶人子, 河頭魚 |
| Loudi |
懶人子 |
| Hengyang |
懶鬼 |
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Verb
蛇王
- (Cantonese) to slack off at work; to goof off during work
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
偷懶 (“to slack off; to lie down on the job”)
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| Variety
| Location
| Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) |
偷懶, 躲懶, 偷閒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin |
Beijing |
躲懶兒, 偷懶兒, 脫懶兒 |
| Taiwan |
偷懶 |
| Singapore |
偷懶 |
| Lanyin Mandarin |
Ürümqi |
躲懶 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin |
Yangzhou |
躲懶, 隑懶 |
| Cantonese |
Guangzhou |
躲懶, 放蛇, 偷雞 |
| Hong Kong |
偷懶, 蛇王, 吞泡 |
| Dongguan |
偷雞 |
| Gan |
Nanchang |
偷懶 |
| Hakka |
Meixian |
偷嫽 |
| Xingning |
偷嫽, 怠懶 |
| Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) |
偷嫽 |
| Jin |
Taiyuan |
偷懶 |
| Eastern Min |
Fuzhou |
躲懶 |
| Southern Min |
Xiamen |
想惰 |
| Zhangzhou |
想惰, 想死 |
| Penang (Hokkien) |
食蛇 |
| Singapore (Hokkien) |
食蛇 |
| Southern Pinghua |
Nanning (Tingzi) |
偷懶 |
| Wu |
Shanghai (Songjiang) |
迓皮, 躲迓避 |
| Suzhou |
偷私乖 |
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