up what spring

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What the hell are you saying?

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Meanings

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  1. Hong Kongcolloquialslightly vulgarWhat the hell are you saying?

    相反，好諷刺地，一句Grammar全對嘅句子，有時反而唔知佢Up what spring，例如日文偽文青廢Up系列：「在非洲,每隔一分鐘，就有六十秒過去⋯⋯」

    KONGISH DAILY

    2017, 港語日報 [KONGISH DAILY] (overall work in Cantonese), →ISBN

    Synonyms: up mud spring, up mud 9, up what 9

Synonyms & antonyms

phraseWhat the hell are you saying?

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up mud springup mud 9up what 9

Origin

Partial calque of Cantonese 噏乜春 (ngap¹ mat¹ ceon¹, “what the hell are you babbling about”, literally “what testicles are you babbling about”), where 春 (ceon¹) is a homograph meaning both “testicles” and “spring (season)”. By surface analysis, Cantonese up + what + spring.

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APA

up what spring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20what%20spring

MLA

“up what spring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20what%20spring. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “up what spring,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20what%20spring.

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