Word of the Day: Singapore Version

[manokie]

Leongsam is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

- apologies to W Churchill.

Leongsam is a conundrum wrapped in an occult inside an crypt

 

[manokie]

Bauble: cheap jewel
Trinket: cheap accessories
Tawdry: cheap, gaudy

Foyce likes to wear tawdry trinkets and bauble.

 

[manokie]

Bugaboo: something that cause fear or terror
Inveigh: denounced, vehemently criticized

Welfare is a political bugaboo in Singapore. Any mention of it before elections inveighed by the MIW sycophants.

 

[manokie]

Jacky Neo is a lascivious, lewd, prurient, salacious wretch

Wretch: bad person
lascivious, lewd, prurient, salacious: lustful

 

[manokie]

The recent Pigeonhole management report is a canard.

Canard: exaggerated false report

 

[manokie]

Mee siam mai hum is a comestible and luscious dish fit to be ambrosia for the Emperor Lee

Comestible: edible, fit for eating
Luscious: Delicious
ambrosia: Food for the gods

 

[manokie]

In Sinkieland, $10 can get you a haircut and complementary coiffure with celerity.


Coiffure: hairstyling
Celerity: speed, rapidity

 

[manokie]

Coruplent: very fat
Moses Lim is corpulent.

 

[manokie]

Ho Chink is a crone

crone: hag, ugly old woman

 

[elephanto]

On top of expanding our vocabularies, are you not trying to teach people here how to kpkb & knnbccb in highfulatin lingo ?

knnccb is knnbccb no matter how verbose it gets ....

A rose by any name smells just as sweet .... Shakespeare

 

[manokie]

Bubble Tea is deleterious to your health.

deleterious: harmful

 

[manokie]

defrock: strip a priest or minister of church of authority

Pastor Rony Tan should be defrocked for his comments on Buddhism.

 

[manokie]

Dirge: funeral song


Someone will compose a dirge for LKY after he dies.

 

[manokie]

This man is a serpent in dissemble.

Dissemble: disguise

 

[manokie]

epigram: witty thought or saying usually short

"Mee Siam Mai Hum" was actually his attempt at an epigram.

 

[manokie]

Expropriate: take possession of (often for public use)

Pig farms in Singapore were expropriated in 1960s to develop Pigeonhole estates.

 

[manokie]

Florid: ruddy, reddish, flowery


The old man has a florid complexion, as he eat shark fin and abalone every day

 

[manokie]

Paean: song of praise or joy

School-going sinkie kids are forced to sing a paean every morning.

 

[manokie]

Pander: cater to (desires of others), pimp

Geylang is an official avenue established by the PAP to pander to the lascivious sinkie men.

 

[manokie]

osseous: bony, made of bones

LWL is an osseous woman, due to her obsession in dieting