leng zai
leng zai noun: good-looking man, pretty boy.
Noun
leng zai (plural leng zais)
- good-looking man, pretty boy
- Even hardened gangsters teasingly addressed him as leng zai or 'pretty boy' and told him to marry their daughters so they would have grandchildren as cute as he was.2019 June 27, Ovidia Yu, The Paper Bark Tree Mystery, Constable, →ISBN
- 'So, you got talk to the leng zai or not?' 'I talked to all of them. They're all —' But Auntie Fong had only one of them on her mind. 'So that leng zai, you think he's chup or not?' 'Which one ah?' 'The tall one lah! Sound like ang moh.'2022 September 1, Julianne Cheah, The Death of Sally Song, Monsoon Books, →ISBN
Adjective
leng zai (comparative more leng zai, superlative most leng zai)
- handsome; good-looking (of a man)
- And whenever he visited he'd bring food from the kopitiam next door, and Mrs Wong would laugh and say aiyoh, leng zai, so sweet.[…]He could see her mother's mouth widen with laughter as she called him leng zai, could just about picture the colour on her painted nails as she passed around the lo mai...2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN
- S2: then i plan lah maybe thirty minutes later lah i will go then the invigilator is too too leng zai {cantonese: handsome} ah i don't dare to ask you know2022 January 19, Ian Walkinshaw, Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca: Findings and Developments, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN
Forms of leng zai
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | leng zais |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more leng zai |
| superlative | most leng zai |
Origin of leng zai
Borrowed from Cantonese 靚仔 /靓仔 (leng³ zai², “handsome”).
Questions about leng zai
- What does leng zai mean?
- Leng zai means good-looking man, pretty boy.
- What part of speech is leng zai?
- Leng zai can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of leng zai?
- The plural of leng zai is leng zais.
Words near leng zai in the dictionary
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