P.Engとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pɛŋ/
• 韻: -ɛŋ

名詞

peng (plural pengs)

1. (Chinese mythology) A legendary enormous bird.

   Synonym: roc

語源 2

From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).

発音

• (Singapore) IPA: [p˭eŋ(˦)], (some speakers) [p˭ɪŋ(˦)]

形容詞

peng (not comparable)

1. (Manglish, Singlish, chiefly attributive, of a drink) Iced; with ice added.
   • 1992 February 21, HanLin Goh, “touchy subject”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet):

     Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!

   • 1992 August 4, Beng Ting, “Malaysian food”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet):

     Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...

   • 2005 May 14, Ir. Liew, “Re: XX Pc User 2 - usb2COM.jpg”, in tmnet.communities (Usenet):

     *sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*

   • 2018 August, Trisha N, quoting Everling Ang, “Ang’s ‘kopi peng’ is worth waiting half an hour for”, in The Star‎, →OCLC:

     I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.

使用する際の注意点

• Always postpositive, as in teh tarik peng ("iced teh tarik").

語源 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 (jau peng jau leng, “cheap and also good quality”), see also 平靚正 / 平靓正 (peng leng zeng, “low cost, high quality”), often heard from hawkers in major Chinatowns. (Can this etymology be sourced?)

別の表記

• pengers, leng, lengers, kweng, kwengers

発音

• IPA: /pɛŋ/

形容詞

peng (comparative penger, superlative pengest)

1. (chiefly MTE, MLE) Physically or sexually attractive.

   Synonyms: fit, hot, leng; see also Thesaurus:attractive, Thesaurus:sexy

   • 2011, “Bulldozers”, in Ancient Future, performed by Cyrus Malachi:

     Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.

   • 2016, “DPMO”, in Gunna Grimes (lyrics), #FingsOnThings, performed by 86:

     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

   • 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”‎performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:

     I see a peng girl, then I pose (chillin') / If she ain't on it, I ghost

   • 2020 October 23, Triggy, “Po’style”, 1:57–02:01:

     Look at the decors, hello, hola, who is that lengers?

   • 2021 February 2, #CHR​ W2rksy x DB, “No Cap”, 1:13–1:16 and 1:59–2:08:

     I need me a big bat one, that’s a leng ting […]
     Baby, baby, hold it down, why not waste, back side brown, no panties under that gown, golden brown, peng, leng, hold that skeng, bad b come link me a ten

   • 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:

     Dom (David Jonsson): You know, you're very—
     Yas (Vivian Oparah): Peng? Refreshingly disarming?
     Dom: You ask a lot of questions.

2. (chiefly MTE, MLE) Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent

   • 2016 December 9, Adam Boult, quoting Elijah Quashie, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in The Daily Telegraph‎:

     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.

   • 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:

     I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!

   • 2018 November 12, DigDat, “Air Force (Remix)”‎ ft. K Trap, Krept, and Konan:

     I just hit two cells with my right hand
     Peng bujj got my fiends all coughing

派生語

• (of the highest quality): peng ting

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