<p>It is a reference to a popular league of legend streamer. 糕手 is 高手 (pro).</p>

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2022-02-01T15:23:16.073Z
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Archeosudoerus
<p>One of my coworkers has the following as their About Me on slack:</p>
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<p>小老板不说话装糕手 多捞哦</p>
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<p>As someone who recently joined this company, I'm embarrassed to admit I don't know what it means - I can translate it, but I don't think I have the cultural(?) context to understand what it's saying. Specifically, I'm not sure what 糕手 should translate to (cake hand?). How should I make sense of this phrase?</p>

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2022-02-01T12:38:23.600Z
糕手 sounds like “高手”.
dan
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2022-02-02T01:07:25.570Z
"多捞哦", sounds like Cantonese, anybody knows what it means?
r13
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2022-02-02T02:26:57.700Z
Yes, I believe it's a play on 糕 & 高. If so, then the co-workers are giving what is called a playful backhanded compliment, with no malice involved, I hope, because 糕, (pastry), in full is 蛋糕, and 蛋, could also morph to 笨蛋, "a fool", which via this convoluted route we get 糕手, or, "butter fingers", (butter being a main ingredient in pastry) I could of course be completely wrong.
Wayne Cheah
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2022-02-02T15:48:10.497Z
@r13 it is a quote from a famous Chines league of legend streamer(大司马). 多捞哦 means the played very bad. Like "trolling" used by English streamer of the game.
Archeosudoerus
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2022-02-02T16:05:05.807Z
@Archeosudoerus So, strictly speaking, both the 糕手 and the 多捞哦 are slangs created after the internet gaming, correct?
r13
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2022-02-02T20:25:14.990Z
@r13 Yes. It is definitely the Internet that got them popular
Archeosudoerus
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Parsing a coworker's "About Me"
# Parsing a coworker's "About Me"

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-02-01)

One of my coworkers has the following as their About Me on slack:

> 小老板不说话装糕手 多捞哦

As someone who recently joined this company, I'm embarrassed to admit I don't know what it means - I can translate it, but I don't think I have the cultural(?) context to understand what it's saying. Specifically, I'm not sure what 糕手 should translate to (cake hand?). How should I make sense of this phrase?

**Tags:** translation, slang

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 糕手 sounds like “高手”.  
> **username_2**: "多捞哦", sounds like Cantonese, anybody knows what it means?  
> **username_3**: Yes, I believe it's a play on 糕 & 高. If so, then the co-workers are giving what is called a playful backhanded compliment, with no malice involved, I hope, because 糕, (pastry), in full is 蛋糕, and 蛋, could also morph to 笨蛋, "a fool", which via this convoluted route we get 糕手, or, "butter fingers", (butter being a main ingredient in pastry) I could of course be completely wrong.  
> **username_4**: @username_2 it is a quote from a famous Chines league of legend streamer(大司马). 多捞哦 means the played very bad. Like "trolling" used by English streamer of the game.  
> **username_2**: @username_4 So, strictly speaking, both the 糕手 and the 多捞哦 are slangs created after the internet gaming, correct?  
> **username_4**: @username_2 Yes. It is definitely the Internet that got them popular  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2022-02-01. Score: 1

It is a reference to a popular league of legend streamer. 糕手 is 高手 (pro).


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