支吾其辭
zhī​wu​qí​cí

to speak evasively

  • created sense approved 支吾其辞/支吾其辭 · zhī​wu​qí​cí · to speak evasively — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    支吾其辞 / 支吾其辭

    zhī​wu​qí​cí

    to speak evasively

    to speak in a roundabout way to avoid telling the truth; to hem and haw

    支吾 (literal) → 支吾 · zhī​wu · to hem and haw 其 (literal) → 其 · qí · [third-person possessive] 辞 (literal) → 辞/辭 · cí · word

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense