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- bubble; foam
- blister
- to soak; to steep; to infuse
- to dawdle; to loiter
- to pick up (a girl)
- to get off with (a sexual partner)
- classifier for occurrences of an action
- classifier for number of infusions
- to bubble
- to foam
- to blister
- to sprout boils (on one's body)
- sparkling (wine etc)
Trad. 燈泡
- light bulb
- see also 電燈泡|电灯泡[dian4 deng1 pao4]
- third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang)
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Trad. 泡湯
- (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing
- to dawdle; to stall
- (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
Trad. 泡飯
- to soak cooked rice in soup or water
- cooked rice reheated in boiling water
Trad. 沖泡
- to add water (or other liquid) to (another ingredient such as powdered milk or tea leaves)
- to infuse (tea)
Trad. 泡泡紗
- seersucker (cotton cloth with pattern of dimples)
Trad. 泡病號
- to dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill
- to malinger
- (coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight)
Trad. 如法泡製
- lit. to follow the recipe (idiom)
- to follow the same plan
Trad. 軟磨硬泡
- to coax and pester (idiom)
- to wheedle
- to cajole
Trad. 一點水一個泡
- honest and trustworthy (idiom)