Singlish words used by parents to their young children:
1. Pom Pom - bath
2. Orh Orh - Sleep
3. Gao Gao - Go to Sleep
4. Kar Kar - Dirty
5. Sact Sact - to Love ( not romantic love)
6. Pui - to spit out
7. Mum Mum - good to eat
8. Wee Wee - to pass urine
9. Piak Piak - to punish
10. Ku Ku - Penis
11. She She - to pass urine, same as Wee Wee
12. Kai Kai - to go for a walk or outing
13. Bear Bear - teddy bear
14. Nen Nen - breast
15. Put Put - to pass motion
16. Chow Chow - stink
17. Ee - Chiang - to get up from a lying position
18. Eeee - something bad.... as in "Eeeee - kar kar" - eeee very dirty
19. thong thong - pain... ( strangely, the root of this word is from Mandarin, not Hokkien or Cantonese)
20. Chut Chut - pacifier, to to suck....
21. Wo Wo - dog
22. Meow Meow - Cat
23. "Police catch you" - do not do something wrong or else....
24. "Indian man catch you" - do not wander away, or else
Did you use these Singlish terms?
Anymore to contribute? Hopefully, someone will do a study on kiddy Singlish ......:p:p:p
1. Pom Pom - bath
2. Orh Orh - Sleep
3. Gao Gao - Go to Sleep
4. Kar Kar - Dirty
5. Sact Sact - to Love ( not romantic love)
6. Pui - to spit out
7. Mum Mum - good to eat
8. Wee Wee - to pass urine
9. Piak Piak - to punish
10. Ku Ku - Penis
11. She She - to pass urine, same as Wee Wee
12. Kai Kai - to go for a walk or outing
13. Bear Bear - teddy bear
14. Nen Nen - breast
15. Put Put - to pass motion
16. Chow Chow - stink
17. Ee - Chiang - to get up from a lying position
18. Eeee - something bad.... as in "Eeeee - kar kar" - eeee very dirty
19. thong thong - pain... ( strangely, the root of this word is from Mandarin, not Hokkien or Cantonese)
20. Chut Chut - pacifier, to to suck....
21. Wo Wo - dog
22. Meow Meow - Cat
23. "Police catch you" - do not do something wrong or else....
24. "Indian man catch you" - do not wander away, or else
Did you use these Singlish terms?
Anymore to contribute? Hopefully, someone will do a study on kiddy Singlish ......:p:p:p