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Peng

//pɛŋ// adj, name, noun

Definitions

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.

Noun

1
A legendary enormous bird. Chinese
2
Alternative form of P.Eng. (“professional engineer”). alt-of, alternative

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).

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