peng

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A legendary enormous bird. Chinese
形容词 adj.
  1. Iced; with ice added. Manglish,Singlish,attributive,not-comparable
    — Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!
  2. Physically or sexually attractive. Multicultural-London-English
    — Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.
  3. Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid. Multicultural-London-English
    — 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.

词形变化

pengs plural penger comparative pengest superlative pengers alternative leng alternative lengers alternative kweng alternative kwengers alternative

词源

词源 1
From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
词源 2
From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).
词源 3
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.
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