吃瓜群众
Traditional form:
吃瓜群眾
Pinyin (reading):
chīguāqúnzhòng
Definitions:
- peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
- onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it
- (neologism c. 2016)
Characters:
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 瓜 - melon, gourd, squash, cucumber
- 群 - group, crowd; multitude, mob
- 众 - multitude, crowd; masses, public
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