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| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4305 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 25 of 29 09 September 2012 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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This is an interesing thread, it provides some fun :). Regarding the gay stuff, I hadn't the faintest idea either, so I didn't fully understand the title of this thread. As for Spain, hrhenry is right, the common term is 'viejo verde' (literally 'old greener').
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| Ojorolla Diglot Groupie France Joined 4759 days ago 90 posts - 130 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 26 of 29 09 September 2012 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't see anything wrong in a woman sleeping with a guy 4 years younger unless the guy is a junior high student or younger.
About the topic of this thread, nothing comes to my mind at the moment, but we refer to older men married to much younger women (like 10 years) as 'thieves'. Edited by Ojorolla on 10 September 2012 at 1:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6376 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 27 of 29 09 September 2012 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
A general term for "dirty old man" in Canto would be 鹹濕佬, "salty wet geezer". The "salty wet" part is an idiomatic expression meaning "pervy" or sometimes "pornographic" when referring to movies etc. Another word I haven't heard but I found in the dictionary is 偷窺亞伯, "peeping uncle". Bear in mind that "uncle" can be used to refer to any older man in general. And there are many more. 麻甩 (or 麻甩佬), "a house sparrow". 鹹蟲, "a salty insect", and probably even more. Regarding simply dating a person of a different age group, a younger man going out with an older woman is said to 煲老藕, "boil an old lotus root". There's also a general term 煲老牛, "boil an old cow" which I think can apply to both men and women. I expect these are related, since 藕 (ngau5) and 牛 (ngau4) are pronounced almost the same (only different in tone). In Mandarin there's also the brilliantly euphemistic 老牛吃嫩草, "old bull eats tender grass". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4924 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 28 of 29 09 September 2012 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Sorry for the misquote. I've corrected it in my post. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4282 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 29 of 29 11 September 2012 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
The slang "cradle snatcher" comes to mind. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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