peng

English

Etymology 1

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Wikipedia

From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬／鹏 (péng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

Noun

peng (plural pengs)

1. (Chinese mythology) A legendary enormous bird.

   Synonym: roc

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key):
  • The is unaspirated.

Adjective

peng (not comparable)

1. (Manglish, Singlish, chiefly attributive, of a drink) Iced; with ice added.
   • 1992 February 21, HanLin Goh, “touchy subject”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet):

     Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!

   • 1992 August 4, Beng Ting, “Malaysian food”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet):

     Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...

   • 2005 May 14, Ir. Liew, “Re: XX Pc User 2 - usb2COM.jpg”, in tmnet.communities (Usenet):

     *sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*

   • 2018 August, Trisha N, quoting Everling Ang, “Ang’s ‘kopi peng’ is worth waiting half an hour for”, in The Star‎, →OCLC:

     I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.

Usage notes

• Always postpositive, as in teh tarik peng ("iced teh tarik").

Etymology 3

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. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Alternative forms

• pengers, leng, lengers, kweng, kwengers

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋ/

Adjective

peng (comparative penger, superlative pengest)

1. (chiefly MTE, MLE) Physically or sexually attractive.

   Synonyms: fit, hot; see also Thesaurus:attractive, Thesaurus:sexy

   • 2011, “Bulldozers”, in Ancient Future, performed by Cyrus Malachi:

     Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.

   • 2016, “DPMO”, in Gunna Grimes (lyrics), #FingsOnThings, performed by 86:

     I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud

   • 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”‎performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:

     I see a peng girl, then I pose (chillin') / If she ain't on it, I ghost

   • 2020 October 23, Triggy (lyrics and music), “Po’style”, 1:57–02:01:

     Look at the decors, hello, hola, who is that lengers?

   • 2021 February 2, #CHR​ W2rksy x DB (lyrics and music), “No Cap”, 1:13–1:16 and 1:59–2:08:

     I need me a big bat one, that’s a leng ting […]
     Baby, baby, hold it down, why not waste, back side brown, no panties under that gown, golden brown, peng, leng, hold that skeng, bad b come link me a ten

   • 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:

     Dom (David Jonsson): You know, you're very—
     Yas (Vivian Oparah): Peng? Refreshingly disarming?
     Dom: You ask a lot of questions.

2. (chiefly MTE, MLE) Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:

     I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!

   • 2018 November 12, DigDat (lyrics and music), “Air Force (Remix)”‎ ft. K Trap, Krept, and Konan:

     I just hit two cells with my right hand
     Peng bujj got my fiends all coughing

Derived terms

• (of the highest quality): peng ting

References

Acehnese

Etymology

From Malay keping, perhaps through Batak hepeng.

Pronunciation

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Noun

peng

1. money

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin pignus.

Noun

peng m (plural pengje, definite pengu, definite plural pengjet)

1. (law) pledge, pawn
2. hostage
3. feeling of regret, unfulfilled desire, wishful thinking
4. (figurative) token of assurance

Derived terms

• pengcë

References

German

Alternative forms

• päng

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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Interjection

peng

1. bang (a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound)

Further reading

• “peng” in Duden online
• “peng” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (“frequentative suffix”). Compare pendül.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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• Hyphenation: peng
• Rhymes: -ɛŋɡ

Verb

peng

1. (intransitive) to ring, jingle, clink (to give out a loud, resonant sound as when striking together two pieces of metal)
2. (intransitive, of musical instrument) to twang

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

• peng in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Mandarin

Romanization

peng

1. Nonstandard spelling of pēng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of péng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pěng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pèng.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋː/

Noun

peng m (definite singular pengen, indefinite plural pengar, definite plural pengane)

1. Alternative form of penge

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse peningr and pengr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛŋː/

• audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋː

Noun

peng c

1. a coin
2. (chiefly in the plural) money

   Du ska få en peng när du fyller.

   You'll get money for your birthday.

   Nyutbildade får inga pengar till semester.

   Graduates get no money for vacation.

   Pengarna eller livet!

   The money or your life!

Usage notes

• The first sample sentence (Du ska få en peng) gives evidence of a rare exception where the singular of peng is used to mean money, and not a coin. Another example is veckopeng/månadspeng, meaning weekly/monthly allowance. However, compounds are formed with the ancient plural genitive penga-.

Declension

Synonyms

(coin):

(money):

Derived terms

(coin):

(money):

References

• peng in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• peng in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• peng in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)