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Hokaglish

Hokaglish proper noun: a colloquial multilingual variety of the Tagalog language that trilingually or bilingually incorporates Hokkien and English lexis (akin to Taglish).

Proper noun

Hokaglish (uncountable)

  1. a colloquial multilingual variety of the Tagalog language that trilingually or bilingually incorporates Hokkien and English lexis (akin to Taglish)
  2. a colloquial multilingual variety of the Hokkien language that trilingually or bilingually incorporates Tagalog and English lexis
  3. a colloquial multilingual variety of the English language that trilingually or bilingually incorporates Hokkien and Tagalog lexis (akin to Conyo)

Origin of Hokaglish

Blend of Hokkien + Taglish.

Questions about Hokaglish

What does Hokaglish mean?
Hokaglish means a colloquial multilingual variety of the Tagalog language that trilingually or bilingually incorporates Hokkien and English lexis (akin to Taglish).
What part of speech is Hokaglish?
Hokaglish is a proper noun.

Words near Hokaglish in the dictionary

  1. Hok-kian
  2. Hok-Kien
  3. Hok-lo
  4. Hok-los
  5. hoka
  6. Hokaglish
  7. Hokah
  8. Hokan
  9. Hokanist
  10. Hokanists
  11. Hokanson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hokaglish (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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