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kancheong

kancheong is the alternative form of kan cheong.

Meaning of kan cheong

Adjective

kan cheong (comparative more kan cheong, superlative most kan cheong)

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) Nervous, anxious, keyed up
    • I was so ‘kancheong’ (Cantonese for worried) about his tests that I woke him up at 5:30 am to remind him not to make mistakes.2002 August 13, Michelle Ho, quoting Diana Liaw, The Straits Times, Singapore, page L8

Questions about kancheong

What is kancheong the alternative form of?
Kancheong is the alternative form of kan cheong.

Words near kancheong in the dictionary

  1. Kanchanaburi
  2. kanchani
  3. kanchanis
  4. Kancheepuram
  5. Kanchenjunga
  6. kancheong
  7. kanchil
  8. kanchils
  9. Kanchipuram
  10. kancho
  11. Kanchow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kancheong (page history and authors); kan cheong (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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