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地溝油
  dei6 kau1 jau4   jyutping
  di4 gou1 you2   pinyin
gutter oil; swill-cooked dirty oil; recycled waste oil; hogwash oil

Also known as 坑渠油 or 餿水, this could be filthy slop directly collected from sewage drains or illegally recycled from kitchen waste, leather processing by-products or slaughter-house offal.
noun

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
地溝油 / 地沟油

This word has been viewed 1616 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by C Chiu on 12th Mar 2013 12:51 and last edited on 7th Sep 2014 15:23
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Characters in this word:

 dei6 dei6*2  -  earth; land; district; location
 kau1 gau1  -  ditch; groove [粵]mix together; pick up
 jau4  -  oil; fat; grease; petroleum
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