quần què

== Vietnamese == === Etymology === quần (“pants”) +‎ què (“crippled”). Some consider this as a Southern corruption of quần hoè, a kind of pants worn in pre-modern times by women during menstruation, making use of flowers of Chinese scholar trees to limit bleeding. === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwən˨˩ kwɛ˨˩] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwəŋ˦˩ kwɛ˦˩] (Saigon) IPA(key): [wəŋ˨˩ wɛ˨˩] === Noun === quần què (literally) broken pants, especially pants with one (or both) leg torn off (figurative, chiefly Southern Vietnam, low colloquial, slang) bullshit; rubbish; your ass