I thought 雞婆 was meant being overly concerned with unimportant matters, and voicing your concerns about such matters. Like being a busybody? Unless there’s another word with the same pronunciation. It’s how my wife uses it. But she’s been known to misuse words!
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Before the lockdown, that was actually the “rule” in several restaurants. I guess the virus only circulates at standard nose level.
I’d say there’s a good amount of overlap between Karen and busybody.
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I think the definition is, someone who minds other people’s businesses too much, so that’s Karenesque, but we often use it in a way you suggest, someone who is doing too much, when less is enough.
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Because when outside I can undo the double.
That guy sounds like a dick.
Be courteous, be polite. Almost all people (whether in Taiwan or elsewhere) will reciprocate.
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At the beginning they describe him as a non cooperative patron, to say the least.
The tape shows when he is sitting, not what happened before.
Bad people still don’t want wear a mask (seems a local man) and police ejected him off the train,
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