peng
/pɛŋ/
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peng noun: a legendary enormous bird.
Noun (1)
peng (plural pengs)
Adjective (1)
peng (not comparable)
- Iced; with ice added.
- Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!1992 February 21, HanLin Goh, “touchy subject”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet)
- Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...1992 August 4, Beng Ting, “Malaysian food”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet)
Adjective (2)
peng (comparative penger, superlative pengest)
- Physically or sexually attractive.
- Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.2011, “Bulldozers”, in Ancient Future, performed by Cyrus Malachi
- I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud2016, “DPMO”, in Gunna Grimes (lyrics), #FingsOnThings, performed by 86
- Synonyms:
- fit, hot, leng, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, catchy, bewitching
- Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid.
- It caught me off guard because it was hench. My mind was like, ‘right, this burger’s hench’. I looked at it, right, ‘that look peng’, and it hit me two thirds of the way in, I clocked that the burger was not peng at all, it was just hench.2016 December 9, Adam Boult, quoting Elijah Quashie, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in The Daily Telegraph
- I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings
Noun (2) capitalized: PEng
PEng (plural PEngs)
- Alternative form of P.Eng. (“professional engineer”).
Proper noun capitalized: Peng
Peng (plural Pengs)
- A surname from Mandarin.
peng meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
peng in Hindi
- पेंग
peng in Tamil
- பெங்
peng in Marathi
- पेंग
peng in Urdu
- پینگ
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- peng in Bengali
- পেং
- peng in Telugu
- పెంగ్
- peng in Malayalam
- പെങ്, പെംഗ്, പെൻഗ്
- peng in Kannada
- ಪೆಂಗ್
- peng in Punjabi
- ਪੇਂਗ, ਪੈਂਗ
- peng in Gujarati
- પેંગ, પેન્ગ
- peng in Odia
- ପେଙ୍ଗ, ପେଙ୍ଗ୍
- peng in Nepali
- पेङ, पेंग, पेङ्ग
Examples of peng in a sentence
- *sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*2005 May 14, Ir. Liew, “Re: XX Pc User 2 - usb2COM.jpg”, in tmnet.communities (Usenet):
- I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.2018 August, Trisha N, quoting Everling Ang, “Ang’s ‘kopi peng’ is worth waiting half an hour for”, in The Star, →OCLC:
- I see a peng girl, then I pose (chillin') / If she ain't on it, I ghost2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:
Synonyms of peng
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Forms of peng
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pengs |
| plural | PEngs |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | penger |
| superlative | pengest |
| alternative form | pengers |
| alternative form | leng |
| alternative form | lengers |
| alternative form | kweng |
| alternative form | kwengers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pengs |
| alternative form | P'eng |
Origin of peng
From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).
Etymology unknown, attested in the UK c. 2000. Documented possibilities include: * From Jamaican Creole kushempeng (“high-quality marijuana”). * From a clipping of penguin (“flightless sea bird”), deemed quintessentially cute. * From Cantonese 又平又靚 /又平又靓 (jau⁶ peng⁴ jau⁶ leng³, “cheap and also good quality”), see also 平靚正 /平靓正 (peng⁴ leng³ zeng³, “low cost, high quality”), often heard from hawkers in major Chinatowns.
Words formed from peng
Phrases with peng
Words that rhyme with peng
Questions about peng
- What does peng mean?
- Peng means a legendary enormous bird.
- What is peng in Hindi?
- Peng in Hindi is पेंग. See Peng meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use peng in a sentence?
- *sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*
- What part of speech is peng?
- Peng can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce peng?
- Peng is pronounced /pɛŋ/.
- What is the plural of peng?
- The plural of peng is pengs.
Words near peng in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: peng (page history and authors); PEng (page history and authors); Peng (page history and authors); peng (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peng (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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