agar-agar

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Agar. uncountable
    — That done, you heat soya milk with oil and several flakes of agar-agar – a tasteless vegan alternative to gelatine – which dissolve into the liquid over 10 minutes, except they don’t, not really.
  2. A jelly dessert made from agar. Malaysia,Singapore,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. Alternative spelling of agak-agak (“to estimate”). Singapore,Singlish,alt-of,alternative,invariable
    — So I just got to agar-agar lor.
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative spelling of agak-agak (“involving guesswork”). Singapore,Singlish,alt-of,alternative,not-comparable

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Malay agar-agarbor.
English agar-agar
Borrowed from Malay agar-agar (“jelly”).
词源 2
From Malay agak-agak. Here, the letter k represents a glottal stop, but it is elided by many speakers in Singapore.
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