浮屍

浮屍

1. floating corpse; floating body
2. (Northern Wu, derogatory) someone vacant without a purpose or job; someone troublesome or unsatisfactory; someone flippant or frivolous
3. (Northern Wu, derogatory, humorous or endearing) General term of address typically of wife to husband.

   阿拉屋裡老浮屍今末咦叉麻將去𡀂。 [Ningbonese, trad.]
   阿拉屋里老浮尸今末咦叉麻将去𡀂。 [Ningbonese, simp.]

   That house idiot of mine has gone out playing mahjong again today.

• The derogatory senses as used in different Northern Wu varieties may differ subtly in the exact negative attribute which it targets - around vacancy, incompetence, or frivolousness. For example, in Shanghainese this might be more of a general derogatory term suggesting incompetence, but Shaoxingnese instead uses this term to disparage qualities such as the cockiness and flippancy of someone completely full of themself. The offensiveness of it also wildly depends on factors such as the context, the locality, and the speaker's age, etc.