What does "peng" mean?
A legendary enormous bird.
Peng
/pɛŋ/ adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A legendary enormous bird.
- Grammar: peng is listed as adj, name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: excellent, kicking, sexy.
- Usage evidence: It is said that Peng Zu was the grandson of a celestial emperor.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A legendary enormous bird. Chinese
- 2 Alternative form of P.Eng. (“professional engineer”). alt-of, alternative
Adjective
- 1 Iced; with ice added. Manglish, Singlish, attributive, not-comparable
"Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!"
- 2 Physically or sexually attractive. Multicultural-London-English
"Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose."
- 3 Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid. Multicultural-London-English
"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."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Mandarin.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"It is said that Peng Zu was the grandson of a celestial emperor."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "peng"?
Common synonyms include: excellent, kicking, sexy.
How do you use "peng" in a sentence?
It is said that Peng Zu was the grandson of a celestial emperor.
How do you pronounce "peng"?
Pronounced /pɛŋ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
Etymology 2
From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).
Etymology 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 (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.
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Mandarin 彭 (Péng).