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mee tai mak

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Singapore/ˌmiː ˌtaɪ ˈmak/

mee tai mak noun: synonym of silver needle noodles.

Noun

mee tai mak (uncountable)

  1. (Singapore) Synonym of silver needle noodles.
    • I would have mee tai mak (short, thick noodles), either in soup or dry, with fishballs, pork balls or yong tau foo at this noodles shop near my house.2006 July 30, Teo Pau Lin, quoting Wong Hon Mun, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L28

Synonyms of mee tai mak

Origin of mee tai mak

From Teochew 米篩目／米筛目 (bhi² tai¹ mag⁸), with the first element reanalyzed as the word mee, meaning “noodles”, from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

Questions about mee tai mak

What does mee tai mak mean?
Mee tai mak means synonym of silver needle noodles.
What part of speech is mee tai mak?
Mee tai mak is a noun.
How do you pronounce mee tai mak?
Mee tai mak is pronounced /ˌmiː ˌtaɪ ˈmak/ (Singapore).

Words near mee tai mak in the dictionary

  1. mee krob
  2. mee pok
  3. mee rebus
  4. mee siam
  5. mee sua
  6. mee tai mak
  7. mee-ah
  8. mee-maw
  9. mee-mawed
  10. mee-mawing
  11. mee-maws

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