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ang mo

ang mo is the alternative spelling of ang moh.

Meaning of ang moh

Noun

ang moh (plural ang moh or ang mohs)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, derogatory, informal, mildly, possibly) A white person, especially one perceived as a foreigner rather than a local inhabitant.
    • Apart from skin colour, I have nothing in common with these Caucasians. To be honest, I have very little in common with the expatriates who live in Singapore either. For a start, most of the ang mohs that live here, particularly the ones from Britain, tend to come from the upper-middle classes.2001, Neil Humphreys, Notes from an Even Smaller Island, Singapore: Times Books International, published 2005, →ISBN; republished as Notes from an Even Smaller Island: Singapore through a Young...
    Synonyms:
    white person

Forms of ang mo

pluralang mo
pluralang mos

Questions about ang mo

What is ang mo the alternative spelling of?
Ang mo is the alternative spelling of ang moh.

Words near ang mo in the dictionary

  1. ANG
  2. ang kong kia
  3. ang kong kias
  4. ang kong siao
  5. ang ku kueh
  6. ang mo
  7. Ang Mo Kio
  8. ang moh
  9. ang mohs
  10. ang mos
  11. ang pao

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ang mo (page history and authors); ang moh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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