咋舌

to be speechless / also pr. [ze2 she2]

Characters and words in 咋舌

dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]
gnaw

= + : In the elevator's kitchen (e2) Zorro (z) is gnawing (咋) away a mandarin's (口) peel to make the remaining peel look like the mandarin has a Mohawk haircut (乍).
loud noise / shout / suddenly

= + : James II of England (zh) is just about to bite a mandarin (口) in the ashram's bathroom (a4) when the mandarin suddenly (咋) shouts (咋) at James, causing his hair to stand on end (乍) like as if he had a Mohawk haircut (乍).
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.

Words with 咋舌

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Sentences with 咋舌

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