jeling

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Malay:

jeling

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definitions

verb

  1. to side-eye; to give a glance out the corner of one's eye; to snatch a look

    2. And then there were two other very Bruneian ladies (outfit, the typical high end bags). I smiled and they just jeling jeling.

    — 2024 April 15, u/ipeelpaint. Reddit, "Singapore to open the world's biggest oceanarium this year, while rich country Brunei has no public aquarium for 32 years by now". https://www.reddit.com/r/nasikatok/comments/1c48s31/singapore_to_open_the_worlds_biggest_oceanarium/


noun

  1. a side-eye; a glance out the corner of one's eye

    2. JB theatre-goers who caught her show, Emily Of Emerald Hill – the longest-running play in Southeast Asia – remember her trembling fear, her side-eye ‘jeling’, her arrogance & ascendancy, her crushing levelling, her acceptance of indignity and reinvention for survival.

    — 2022, StageCraft (Facebook reel). https://www.facebook.com/reel/415649041228734