弄工廢事

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Chinese

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to do; to manage; to handle
to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with; lane; alley
 
work; worker; skill
work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
 
abolish; crippled
matter; thing; item
matter; thing; item; work; affair
 
trad. (弄工廢事)
simp. (弄工废事)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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弄工廢事

  1. (Xianyou Puxian Min, idiomatic) to waste time; to get nothing done

References

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  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “弄工废事”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 344.