Singlish vocabulary: Difference between revisions

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|Arrow||English||To delegate an unpleasant or boring task to someone. Term derives from the military and government's practice of stamping a tiny arror next to the name of the person in official documents.

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|Atas||Malay||Literally means "upstairsabove". Used to describe a snobbish and arrogant person.

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|Auntie||English||A generic address for middle aged or elderly woman.<ref>Wong, Jock (2006) 'Contextualizing ''aunty'' in Singaporean English', ''World Englishes'', 25 (3/4), 451-466.</ref> It may also refer to a young woman who dresses very unfashionably.