傻

Unclear. Possible early forms in Middle Chinese include 𧫝 (MC srwaeX) or 誜 (MC srwaeH), indicating "to speak carelessly; to talk nonsense".

(dialectal Mandarin, including Tianjin Mandarin) very; quite


尿

/n̠ʲi̯ɒu̯²¹/

/n̠ʲi̯ɒu̯²¹/

Pictogram (象形) in the oracle bone script - an urinating man. In the seal script, it became an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 尾 (“tail”) + 水 (“water”). 尾 later simplified into 尸 (“body”).
Related to Proto-Tai *niəwᴮ (“urine”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

(Tianjin Mandarin) to fear; to be afraid of (the other party in a fight)

(Tianjin Mandarin) to lose heart; to be discouraged; to be cowardly


地蠶

/ti⁵¹ t͡sʰän³⁵/

/ti⁵¹ t͡sʰän³⁵/

(Jilu Mandarin, including Tianjin Mandarin, Shijiazhuang Mandarin) earthworm


白眼

/paɪ̯³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paɪ̯³⁵ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paːk̚² ŋaːn¹³/

/piɪk̚⁴⁻³² ɡan⁵³/

/piɪk̚²⁴⁻² ɡan⁵⁵⁴/

/piɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡan⁵³/

/piɪk̚⁴⁻³² ɡan⁵³/

/piɪk̚⁴⁻³² ɡan⁴¹/

/baʔ¹¹ ŋe²³/

/baʔ⁵⁵ ɦɛ²¹/

/paɪ̯³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paɪ̯³⁵ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paːk̚² ŋaːn¹³/

/piɪk̚⁴⁻³² ɡan⁵³/

/piɪk̚²⁴⁻² ɡan⁵⁵⁴/

/piɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡan⁵³/

/piɪk̚⁴⁻³² ɡan⁵³/

/piɪk̚⁴⁻³² ɡan⁴¹/

/baʔ¹¹ ŋe²³/

/baʔ⁵⁵ ɦɛ²¹/

(Tianjin Mandarin) one's daughter's child (as opposed to one's son's child ― 紅眼)


紅眼

/xʊŋ³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/xʊŋ³⁵ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hʊŋ²¹ ŋaːn¹³/

/xʊŋ³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/xʊŋ³⁵ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hʊŋ²¹ ŋaːn¹³/

(Tianjin Mandarin) one's son's child (as opposed to one's daughter's child ― 白眼)


南大

/nän³⁵ tä⁵¹/

/nän³⁵ tä⁵¹/

南開大學 w:zh:南開大學

(before 1949, still used in Tianjin Mandarin) short for 南開大學


倍兒哏兒

/pəɻ⁵¹ kəɻ³⁵/

/pəɻ⁵¹ kəɻ³⁵/

(Tianjin Mandarin, colloquial) very funny; hilarious


哈巴

/xä²¹⁴ b̥ä⁴/

/xä²¹⁴ b̥ä⁴/

From 哈 (hà, “to sway; to wobble”) + verbal suffix 巴 (ba) (Zhou, 2002).
Alternatively, it may come from etymology 2, alluding to the way a Pekinese walks (ibid.).

哈叭
獬𤜞
海巴
獬豝
海爾巴

(Beijing, Northeastern and Tianjin Mandarin) to bend one's knees or feet outwards when walking; to walk with a limp with crooked legs


餜箅

/ku̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹/

/ku̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ piə̯ɻ⁵¹/

/ku̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹/

/ku̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ piə̯ɻ⁵¹/

(originally Tianjin Mandarin) crispy fried cracker that is a common ingredient in Tianjin-style jianbing


嘎子

/kä³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/kä³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

(Beijing and Tianjin Mandarin) finger ring


死摳兒

/sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ⁵⁵/

/sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ⁵⁵/

(Beijing and Tianjin Mandarin) stingy; miserly


撂挑子

/li̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/

/li̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/

(literally, originally Beijing and Tianjin Mandarin dialects) to put one's shoulder pole down


馬尿

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ni̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/maː¹³ niːu̯²²/

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ni̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/maː¹³ niːu̯²²/