leng zai

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. good-looking man, pretty boy Malaysia,Singapore
    — Even hardened gangsters teasingly addressed him as leng zai or 'pretty boy' and told him to marry their daughters so they would have grandchildren as cute as he was.
形容词 adj.
  1. handsome; good-looking (of a man) Malaysia,Singapore
    — And whenever he visited he'd bring food from the kopitiam next door, and Mrs Wong would laugh and say aiyoh, leng zai, so sweet.[…]He could see her mother's mouth widen with laughter as she called him leng zai, could just about picture the colour on her painted nails as she passed around the lo mai gai he'd bought for the other aunties to eat.

词形变化

leng zais plural more leng zai comparative most leng zai superlative

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Cantonese 靚仔 /靓仔 (leng³ zai², “handsome”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Cantonese 靚仔 /靓仔 (leng³ zai², “handsome”).
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