Sinkie
Sinkie noun: somebody from Singapore; a Singaporean.
Noun
Sinkie (plural Sinkies)
- Somebody from Singapore; a Singaporean.
- "NS for Sinkies. Jobs for Sinkies also."2019 March 14, Jonathan Lim, “Govt to help S'pore companies go global & to cope with foreign worker quota cut: Chan Chun Sing”, in Mothership, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025
- What to do? Sinkies suka aksi borak and end up liddat lor. We wan to sound tua ki and end up sounding tua ki in a goblok way. Orbigood!2022, Gwee Li Sui, The Leeter Spiaking Singlish Book 3: Loanwords
Adjective
Sinkie (not comparable)
- Singaporean, of or relating to Singapore (mainly used in a negative or stereotypical manner)
- While it is possible that users may be more offensive on this forum, much of what is said on the forum matched my offline research where snide remarks about Chinese migrants are made off the record[…] One thread titled "rising trend of sinkie [Singaporean] women pairing up with Ah Tiong men” was...2025 October 1, Sylvia Ang, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
Forms of Sinkie
| plural | Sinkies |
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Origin of Sinkie
From Singapore + -ie.
Words formed from Sinkie
Questions about Sinkie
- What does Sinkie mean?
- Sinkie means somebody from Singapore; a Singaporean.
- What part of speech is Sinkie?
- Sinkie can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of Sinkie?
- The plural of Sinkie is Sinkies.
Words near Sinkie in the dictionary
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