For two centuries, people have ceaselessly used Cantonese, Fujianese and Peking dialects, and even Japanese, in trying to guess the original meaning of Temple's word, "sharawadgi."
兩世紀來，不斷有人從廣東、福建、北京方言，甚至日語，來猜測「傻啦瓜嘰」的原意。