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oil fat grease petroleum to apply tung oil, paint or varnish oily greasy glib cunning
glossy gleaming shiny (due to greasiness) slick greasy oily
(slang) alternative for 哎呦[ai1 you1] "oh my!"
Trad. 製油
to extract (vegetable) oil; oil extraction
Trad. 塗油
to grease to oil to baste (cookery)
eloquent and cunning silver tongued
dense and sticky substance (dialect) wily old fox
dipstick oil measuring rod
Youxuan, a kind of a pastry
soy sauce (chiefly in Cantonese and Hakka areas)
Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
Trad. 油條
youtiao (deep-fried breadstick) CL:根[gen1] slick and sly person
to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel to accelerate; to step on the gas (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on
cream butter (coll.) effeminate
grease profit ill-gotten gains
oily sweat (dialect) aphid
Jiangyou prefecture-level city in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳[Mian2 yang2], north Sichuan
greasy dirt sludge (from an oil spill)
to sauté bubbles that appear in the oil when deep-frying
crisp residue left after rendering animal fat; (esp.) pork cracklings
oily greasy unctuous slippery (character)
oil paints lacquer to paint CL:層|层[ceng2]
Trad. 曬油
(Malaysia) thick soy sauce (used to give food a glossy, caramel-like color)
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)
semi-solid fat-based substance (medicine) ointment
Trad. 油膩
greasy food; oily food (of food) greasy; oily; fatty (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
grease or fat blobs at the surface of a liquid tricky and dissolute
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) rape greens; leafy greens of certain Brassica species (dialect) bok choy
Trad. 油門
accelerator (pedal) gas pedal throttle
waterproof shoes; oiled shoes (for wet weather)
Trad. 油餅
deep-fried doughcake oilcake (animal fodder)
to extract oil from vegetables to press
oil spill; oil leak (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油[jia1 you2])
tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
containing oil oil-bearing
to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain to grope a woman or girl
sheep's fat suet mutton tallow
(petrochemistry) heavy oil fuel oil
to pour heated oil and seasonings over food (e.g. a cooked fish)
(of food) to absorb oil (of a vehicle) to guzzle fuel
to condition or dye the hair using hair treatment product in conjunction with a hair steamer
Trad. 節油
to economize on gasoline fuel-efficient
soy bean oil (dialect) soy sauce
Trad. 採油
oil extraction oil recovery
CPC Corporation, a state-owned petroleum company in Taiwan (abbr. for 台灣中油|台湾中油[Tai2 wan1 Zhong1 you2])
glossy gleaming shiny (due to greasiness) slick greasy oily
variant of 尤加利[you2 jia1 li4]
(coll.) wily old fox crafty fellow
Trad. 撈油水
(coll.) to gain profit (usu. by underhand means)
Yau Tsim Mong district of Kowloon, Hong Kong
avocado (Persea americana) shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa)
Trad. 萬金油
Tiger Balm, an ointment applied topically to treat all manner of aches and pains (fig.) (coll.) jack of all trades
Jiangyou prefecture-level city in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳[Mian2 yang2], north Sichuan
Trad. 風油精
essential balm containing menthol, eucalyptus oil etc, used as a mosquito repellant
Trad. 油潑麵
see 油潑扯麵|油泼扯面[you2 po1 che3 mian4]
Trad. 地溝油
illegally recycled waste cooking oil
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
Trad. 油罐車
oil tanker truck fuel tanker
Trad. 燃油車
fuel-powered car; internal-combustion vehicle
oilseed rape (Brassica campestris) rapeseed coleseed
rapeseed flower; canola flower
Trad. 菠蘿油
pineapple bun 菠蘿包|菠萝包[bo1 luo2 bao1] with a slice of butter inserted
(derog.) (of a woman) to bring one's children into a second marriage children by a previous marriage
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