Hokkien peng

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Hok-kiàn

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noun

  1. (military, slightly derogatory) a soldier whose primary language is Hokkien, and behaves according to and follows the cultural stereotypes associated with a Hokkien person

    2. His newfound suave was occasionally betrayed by a veneer of "hokkien peng" brusqueness.

    — 2024, Roland Tan. A Trinity of Budding Stories. Partridge Publishing Singapore. ISBN: 9781543781519

  2. (military, derogatory) a soldier whose primary language is a Chinese language (though typically other than Mandarin, and not necessarily Hokkien), cannot speak English well, and is stereotypically less educated and unrefined

    3. One of my platoon mates was this kentang Singaporean who was schooled in Australia. He had a hard time getting along with the hokkien peng, not so much because of his accent, but his lack of Singlish vocabulary ...

    — 2011, Lieutenant Kilat (moderated by Warren Mark Liew; edited by Kathryn Anne Davis). Critical Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies. Information Age Pub. ISBN: 9781617353864. p.130

    "I shared a bunk with Hokkien peng and scholars ... my buddy did not complete his secondary education."

    — 2022 July 1, Ng Yeen Chern (quoted). Today, advertisement column. p.48


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