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Hiam

//hjʌm(˦)// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    hot and spicy. Singapore, colloquial

    "At best, it was just so-so – nothing like what we would cook for ourselves at home. It was not “hiam” enough probably from the lack of ginger or ginger juice and there was insufficient wine."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 薟／莶 (hiam, “spicy”).

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