嗟来食 jiēláishí Here! Come eat! Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 嗟来食 嗟來食 jiēláishí Here! Come eat! a rude or grudging command to a person to come and eat charity handout given in contempt food or charity offered with an insulting attitude; an ungracious handout that a person of integrity would refuse. Also written as 嗟来之食 jiēláizhīshí Frequency Written text 0.006 per million Cross-References Variant of 嗟来之食 jiēláizhīshí Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
嗟来食 嗟來食 jiēláishí Here! Come eat! a rude or grudging command to a person to come and eat charity handout given in contempt food or charity offered with an insulting attitude; an ungracious handout that a person of integrity would refuse. Also written as 嗟来之食 jiēláizhīshí Frequency Written text 0.006 per million Cross-References Variant of 嗟来之食 jiēláizhīshí Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
