Peng
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peng¹
- /pɛŋ/
Rhymes with -ɛŋ
Where it comes from
From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
noun pengs
- A legendary enormous bird.
peng²
- [p˭eŋ(˦)] Singapore
- [p˭ɪŋ(˦)] Singapore
Where it comes from
From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).
adjective
- Iced; with ice added. Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!
peng³
- /pɛŋ/
Where it comes from
Etymology unknown, attested in the UK c. 2000. Documented possibilities include:
* From Jamaican Creole kushempeng (“high-quality marijuana”).
* From a clipping of penguin (“flightless sea bird”), deemed quintessentially cute.
* From Cantonese 又平又靚 /又平又靓 (jau⁶ peng⁴ jau⁶ leng³, “cheap and also good quality”), see also 平靚正 /平靓正 (peng⁴ leng³ zeng³, “low cost, high quality”), often heard from hawkers in major Chinatowns.
adjective penger · pengest · pengers · leng · lengers · kweng
- Physically or sexually attractive. Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.
- Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid. It caught me off guard because it was hench. My mind was like, ‘right, this burger’s hench’. I looked at it, right, ‘that look peng’, and it hit me two thirds of the way in, I clocked that the burger was not peng at all, it was just hench.
Peng⁴
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mandarin 彭 (Péng).
proper noun Pengs · P'eng
- A surname from Mandarin.
PEng⁵
noun PEngs
- Alternative form of P.Eng. (“professional engineer”).P.Eng.
