lor

Little.

Adjective

Tagged at the end of a sentence to convey a sense of resignation or inevitability.
- Next time lor.
- OK lor, go ahead.
- bo pian lor.
Used to suggest that there is an obvious, inevitable or straightforward answer to something.
- Near-synonym: lah (sense 6)
- You lor, or else still got who?
- Then tell him lor.
Synonyms: lah
Suggests that the reply given is the obvious or expected one.
- At my house lor.
- It’s true for me, at least. Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes....
- As a facilitator, I often ask the participants: how are you feeling now? And often, the replies I get are: "Okay lor", "Like that lor". - 2024 February 6, Carrie Tan, “Advancing Mental Health”, in Parliamentary Debates:...
Used to reinforce an opinion, sometimes in a sarcastic manner.
- Sorry lor.
- Ya lor / Han nor.
- A retired senior police officer in Hong Kong on trial over the assault of a bystander during the 2014 Occupy protests said “sorry lor” for his actions in court on Friday, admitting that he hit his accuser with a baton...

From Cantonese 囉 /啰 (lo¹) and Hokkien 囉 /啰 (--lo͘, indicating resignation), which is itself borrowed from Cantonese.