Tuesday, January 13, 2009

New Oxford Dictionary (Singapore Edition)

This came in my inbox, courtesy of Vicvanwinkle. Singlish still rocks!

1) LILY - adverb. extremely, really.
"Wah, you lily can sing well ah!"

2) VALLEY - adverb. extremely (same with lily), very.
"Look! My Versachee belt, valley nice hor?"

3) GORGES - adj. stunningly beautiful, gorgeous, normally found with valley.
"Wah! Ah Beng's girlflan is valley gorges leh!"

4) CORAL - verb. to bicker, quarrel
"Why, you not happy, ah? Want to coral, is it?"

5) REEF - (normally followed with coral) to argue with.
"You lily wantto coral reef me ah?"

6) ALTITUDE - adjective. a disagreeable demeanour, attitude
"Ah Lian Lily got a bad altitude ploblem".

7) CIRRUS - adjective. certain. serious
"You cirrus or not? Dun bruff!"

8) CANOPY - phrase. impossible, cannot be
"He bought new handphone? Canopy lah! Where got money?"

9) OLDLADY - adjective. completed, already
"Wah...you finish oldlady ah."

10) SUIT - verb. to project forward, shoot
"Suit! Suit! See goalkeeper come out oldlady."

11) SOW - verb. to reveal, show
"Sow me, sow me your new ting."

12) LOAD - noun. a path normally made up of gravel & tar, road
"We go Orchard Load leh."

13) BLINK - verb. deliver, send, bring
"What you blink for me? Sow me, sow me."

You like the above joking or not harr? Got some more?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hahaha......bery funny indeed! Thanks for sharing this joke ah....heehee