peng
nounadjectiveadjectiveattested in dialogue
- //pɛŋ//
- /[p˭eŋ(˦)]/
- /[p˭ɪŋ(˦)]/
A legendary enormous bird.
noun
- 1
A legendary enormous bird.
Etymology
From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
adjective
- 1
Iced; with ice added.
Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!
Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...
*sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*
I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.
Etymology
From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).
adjective
- 1
Physically or sexually attractive.
Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.
I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud
I see a peng girl, then I pose (chillin') / If she ain't on it, I ghost
Look at the decors, hello, hola, who is that lengers?
- 2
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.
I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!
I just hit two cells with my right hand Peng bujj got my fiends all coughing
Etymology
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.
Forms
- plural
- pengs
- comparative
- penger
- superlative
- pengest