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peng

noun
/pɛŋ//p˭eŋ(˦)/

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.

  1. borrowed from 鵬

Definitions

  1. A legendary enormous bird.

  2. Iced

    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*

  3. 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
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Of the highest quality

      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

    2. A surname from Mandarin.

    3. Alternative form of P.Eng. (“professional engineer”).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA