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Singlish of the week - Part Two
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ORREADY  Singlish for "already".

WAYANG malay for a theatrical or operatic show . In this case it means..An act carried out or display put up to confuse or mislead.  Put up a front or display; spec. pretend to be hard at work. Ostentatious, fussy, showy.  Contrived, fake, put-on.

WAIT LONG-LONG  The anglicized version of the Malay phrase "Tunggu Lama Lama" and Hokkien phrase "Tan Ku Ku", which means "forget it" or "it'll never happen".

WHERE GOT  Pithy term expressing disbelief or sometimes, outrage.

SUKA-SUKA Derived from the Malay term "suka", meaning "like", this means to do as one likes, regardless of whether someone else approves.

Relek One Corner. A Mat-ism, exhorting one to relax.  ‘Relac’ is ostensibly even more laid back than ‘relax’, as it is in the singular. 

Jiak TSUA .Hokkien term literally meaning, “to eat snake”. Means to goof off or skive.  

BEH TAHAN A hybrid Hokkien-Malay term meaning, "I can't stand it" or "I can't deal with it".  (Hokkien for cannot is "beh" and "tahan" in Malay is "endure".)

 

2006-10-15 22:32:13 GMT
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