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獨沽一味

duk6 gu1 jat1 mei6*2

concentrating on the one and the same thing

This word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese or informal Cantonese writing. 粵

Level: 3

獨沽一味

獨 duk6 du2 - [1] alone; single; solitary [2] only [3] [v] m
沽 gu1 gu3 gu2 gu4 gu3 gu1 - to buy; to sell; crude; inferior (quality)
一 jat1 yi1 yi4 yi2 - number one
味 mei6 wei4 mai4 mei4 mo4 - taste, flavour; smell, odour

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隨口講佢著衫獨沽一味，點知佢借啲意隔日就買反一櫃嘅新衫粵 edit
I was merely commenting she's always wearing the same clothes; little did I know that she would use it as an opportunity to buy herself a whole cupboard of new clothes the next day.

This word was added by bernard on 10th May 2008

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