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kanto girl

kanto girl noun: an office girl.

Noun

kanto girl (plural kanto girls)

  1. (Philippines, slang) An office girl.

Forms of kanto girl

pluralkanto girls

Origin of kanto girl

From kanto boy, but the latter term was replaced with girl as a female equivalent, whereas the former term was originally from Japanese 官庁(かんちょう) (kanchō, “government office”), borrowed in the Philippines during WW2 according to Potet (2016), but it was eventually replaced with Tagalog kanto (“corner, especially of two streets”), which was reinterpreted to refer to an "office corner".

Questions about kanto girl

What does kanto girl mean?
Kanto girl means an office girl.
What part of speech is kanto girl?
Kanto girl is a noun.
What is the plural of kanto girl?
The plural of kanto girl is kanto girls.

Words near kanto girl in the dictionary

  1. Kantists
  2. Kantner
  3. Kantners
  4. kanto boy
  5. kanto boys
  6. kanto girl
  7. kanto girls
  8. kanto lingo
  9. Kanto Plain
  10. kanto-sho
  11. kantoi

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