搵鬼

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Chinese

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press with finger; wipe ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (搵鬼)
simp. (揾鬼)
Literally: “to ask ghosts [to do it]”.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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搵鬼

  1. (Cantonese) having nobody wanting to do (clarification of this definition is needed)
    豬頭骨搵鬼 [Cantonese, trad.]
    猪头骨揾鬼 [Cantonese, simp.]
    ni1 gin6 zyu1 tau4 gwat1 wan2 gwai2 zou6 me1? [Jyutping]
    This is such an undesirable job with high effort and low payoff. Nobody is doing it.