Terms originating from English
This page lists all currently defined terms with English recorded as a language of origin.
Note that etymologies are typically only traced back to the primary or secondary ancestors of a term, and so older ancestors may not be comprehensively included.
- -s
- -z
- 11B
- 1206
- 1211
- 15A
- 302
- 4D
- 5Cs
- AA
- Ali Baba bag
- BBQ le
- BGR
- BTO
- C
- CAT 1
- CB leaf
- CB plant
- CO OK
- Cantonese
- Channel 5
- Charlie Mike
- Chinese helicopter
- D&D
- DB
- ET
- ET blade
- ET stick
- England
- FBTs
- GCB
- GCB
- GCG
- GEPper
- God in Heaven
- Godzilla
- HDB
- Hainanese
- Hainanese pork chop
- Hainanese steamboat
- Hokkien noodles
- Hongkie
- I tell you
- IA
- IC
- IC
- ICT
- IPPT
- Indian chief
- Indian rojak
- JC
- KIV
- King Kong
- LLST
- Little Red Dot
- MC
- MC king
- MINDEF
- MRT
- Mao Shan Wang
- Michael Jackson
- Milo Godzilla
- Milo King Kong
- Milo T-Rex
- Milo dinosaur
- Miloccino
- Musang King
- NAPFA
- NFFFFN
- NRIC
- Neslo
- O$P$
- OK can
- ORD
- ORD lo
- ORD mood
- OTOT
- PRC
- Paul Lampard
- Pepsi Cola 1, 2, 3
- RMJ
- ROC
- ROD
- ROD mood
- ROM
- RSM's hotel
- Ramly burger
- S'pore
- S'porean
- SES
- SG
- SGean
- SOC
- SOC
- SOL
- SWH
- SYT
- Samsui chicken
- Samsui woman
- Singapore
- Singapore Girl
- Singapore sling
- Singlish
- Sinkie
- Sinkie pwn Sinkie
- Smart 4
- T-Rex
- TCSS
- TCSSPPP
- Tele
- Teochew porridge
- WALI
- Whatapps
- YP
- YTF
- abacus beads
- abacus seeds
- abit
- abit the
- abuden
- act blur
- act blur live longer
- act cute
- act cute buay cute
- action
- action
- agaration
- ah boy
- ah girl
- ah then
- ai kia stead mai
- ai stead mai
- air-level
- aircon
- ais
- aiseh
- aiyu jelly
- akshen aje
- aksi
- aksi borak
- all
- all fart and no shit
- already
- also
- also can
- ampulet
- anot
- anyhow
- anyhow whack
- anyhowly
- argable
- armskote
- arrow
- asshole dai di
- attend B
- attend C
- auntie
- bak chiu tak stamp
- balls drop
- balls shrink
- banana
- banana money
- bang balls
- bangla
- basha
- basket
- batchmate
- bbfa
- bear bear
- beat aeroplane
- beef ball
- beef rendang
- berry
- best in singapore, jb, and some say batam
- bi
- big cannon fairy
- big fuck
- big size
- bird bird
- bittergourd
- black and white
- black fungus
- blank
- blank file
- blanket party
- block catching
- blue ginger
- blur
- blur cock
- blur king
- blur like sotong
- blur sotong
- bo idea
- bobo
- bobo king
- bobo shooter
- boomz
- bottlecaps
- brudder
- buay steady
- buff lord
- bungalow
- by left
- calefare
- can
- can also
- can anot
- can die
- can is can
- cancel last
- cannot
- cannot make it
- capsicum
- cari point
- carrot cake
- carry
- carry balls
- carry on
- cartoon
- catch no ball
- catching
- cert
- champion
- change parade
- change underwear
- chao keng warrior
- chao mao
- chao mugger
- chao private
- chao recruit
- char siew rice
- cheapo
- cheater buck
- cheese
- cheese pie
- cheese prata
- cher
- chicken backside
- chicken business
- chicken feet
- chicken rendang
- chicken rice
- chicken rice ball
- chilli
- chilli crab
- chilli padi
- chiminology
- chimness
- chindian
- chiongster
- chitty melaka
- chiu
- chocolate bar
- chop carrot head
- chopsticks
- chut pattern
- clever
- climb on top
- close eye
- close eye also can
- close one eye
- clown
- cock
- cock fella
- cock stand
- cock steam
- cock up
- cock-up
- cockanathan
- cocked-up
- cockster
- coconut
- coffee shop
- coin prata
- come
- come I clap for you
- commando
- compo
- condemned
- confine
- confinement
- confirm
- confirm plus chop
- confirm plus guarantee got chop
- consperm
- coolie
- cooling
- corlick
- corright
- cos
- cowboy
- coy
- crab
- curry devil
- curry puff
- damn
- de blahdy gahmen
- deprove
- dhoby mark
- dialect
- die cock stand
- die die
- die die must
- die die must have
- die die must try
- die liao
- dieded
- ding dong
- dinobu
- dinosaur
- dirty
- dis
- doll biscuit
- don't come don't come one come all come
- don't have
- don't play play
- doneded
- dot dot dot
- double confirm
- double up
- dowan
- down
- drama
- drama mama
- drop
- drop
- drop like grapes
- dry
- dun
- dunnid
- earpiece
- eat snake
- economy rice
- egg
- egg prata
- elephant
- else what
- end up
- enthu
- ever
- every mother son
- ex
- extra
- extra
- eye paste stamp
- eye power
- farmer
- faster
- fatty bom bom
- feedback
- fennelite
- fetch
- fever high
- fight
- finger splitting game
- finish
- fishball
- fishball noodles
- fishcake
- five stones
- five-foot way
- flied lice
- flip prata
- flustrated
- fly aeroplane
- fork and spoon
- friend
- friend friend
- fuck
- fuck care
- fuck spider
- fuck upside down
- fullpack
- gabra king
- gabra like zebra
- gahmen
- gennermen
- ger
- get eaten by
- gg
- gg
- glam
- glass heart
- go fly kite
- gon'
- gone case
- goot
- gostan
- got
- got dragon got phoenix
- got dragon got tiger
- got eyes also don't know Mount Taishan
- got eyes also don't know orh ee orh
- got licence
- got standard
- grandfather's
- grandfather's army
- grandfather's road
- green bean
- green bean soup
- guarantee got chop
- gutter
- ha
- half ball
- half past six
- hammer
- hamsum
- handphone
- hang flower
- happening
- happy can already
- happy like bird
- happy like shark
- har lok
- have
- havoc
- hawker
- hawker centre
- hawker stall
- heart attack
- heart pain
- heartlander
- heartlands
- heartware
- heaty
- heck
- heck care
- helication
- help
- hex
- high SES
- hit aeroplane
- hongster
- hongster never die, tiong sim is a lie
- horn
- horrigible
- horse back cannon
- how
- how can
- how can dis be allow
- humji dog
- hungry ghost festival
- i.e. to say
- ice ball
- ice jelly
- ice kacang
- icebox bergerak
- idle king
- insai
- iron rice bowl
- isit
- itchy
- itchy backside
- jangan tension
- jew
- jibra
- jilo
- jin gang
- jolly well
- junior college
- just now
- just whack
- kali pok
- kampung chicken
- kampung spirit
- kan cheong spider
- karipap
- karung guni man
- kaya toast
- keng king
- kengster
- kenz
- kha pager
- khua midnight
- kia stead
- kiapper
- kiasiism
- kiasiness
- kiasuism
- kiasuness
- king
- kiwi
- knock it down
- know
- koi biscuit
- koi mooncake
- kope
- kopi money
- kopi-O licence
- ku ku bird
- kueh pie tee
- laksa leaf
- laksa noodles
- lan lan suck thumb
- lao pok car
- last car
- last time
- last time policemen wear shorts
- last warning
- later
- laugh die me
- less
- level
- liddat
- lightbulb
- long 4
- long chiam pas
- lose face
- lotus root
- lotus seed
- love letter
- low SES
- luo han fish
- ma lai gou
- mainstreamer
- maintain balan
- makan session
- maluate
- maluated
- maluating
- mama shop
- mamak stall
- man mode
- mangali
- mango pomelo sago
- mango sago
- market
- marketing
- mat motor
- mat rempit
- mat rep
- mat rok
- mat roker
- mee soup
- member
- merlion
- minah rep
- missy
- mood
- mooncake biscuit
- more better
- mug
- mugger
- mutton rendang
- my one
- neh
- neh
- neh nanny boo boo
- never
- never die before
- new bird
- next time
- ni
- ninja
- no action, talk only
- no come no come one come all come
- no eye see
- no fish, prawns also can
- no gahmen
- no head no tail
- no horse run
- no kick
- no link
- no mood
- no spiak
- no standard
- not happy
- not happy, talk outside
- not needed
- notchet
- notti
- occifer
- off
- off
- off-beat
- off-beat cha-cha
- oh my tian
- old bird
- old flower
- on
- on
- on
- one
- one come, all come
- one kind
- one times
- one times good one
- one-stripe general
- onion prata
- only
- onz
- opeh leaf
- open
- open coffee shop
- open jio
- open kopitiam
- orbi good
- orbi quek
- orbit
- orca
- oredi
- orgy
- outside drinks
- outside food
- outside food and drinks
- over
- owadio
- own time, own target
- ownself
- ownself check ownself
- pain
- paiseh piece
- paktology
- pang chance
- pape roger
- paper prata
- paper thosai
- parking lot
- pattern
- pattern more than badminton
- pattern zuay kuay badminton
- peach kueh
- peanut soup
- penguin
- people mountain people sea
- photostat
- piggy biscuit
- piggy mooncake
- pikachu
- pink IC
- plaster prata
- play
- play a fool
- play cheat
- play play
- play punk
- police and thief
- policemen wear shorts
- polytechnic
- poot poot
- popz
- pork ball
- potong ice cream
- potong stim
- powder bath
- powderful
- power
- prata bomb
- prawn mee
- pregnant duck
- pretend
- pro
- puki mak kau lobang square
- pump
- put aeroplane
- put tank in a mall
- queen
- rabz
- rabz-kebabz
- range
- recce
- red bean
- red bean soup
- referee kayu
- relak
- relak one corner
- reservice
- reservist
- revert
- roti john
- rubberband noodles
- sabo
- sabo king
- sago gula melaka
- sai kang warrior
- saman
- saman auntie
- saman uncle
- same same
- same same but different
- sarabat stall
- sargen
- sarong party girl
- satay sauce
- satay stick
- save face
- say
- say people say yourself
- say real
- scissors paper stone
- scissors paper stone leg stretch
- screw
- screw inside out
- screw upside down
- scuse
- see
- see first
- see how
- see how first
- see no touch, touch no see, see and touch, pay money
- see what see
- sell backside
- sell grapes
- shag
- shagged out
- shaggedy
- shake leg
- she
- shilling
- show colour
- show colour
- show face
- show half ball
- siam one corner
- siang kha pager
- siansation
- siao on
- side
- sign 1206
- sign extra
- sing K
- sir
- slang
- smoke
- snake
- snake king
- snake king
- snowskin
- so
- solid
- solid bird bird
- solid chap
- somemore
- sorry no cure
- sorry no pakeh
- sot
- sot
- sot
- soup
- soya bean
- soya bean milk
- spiak
- spoil
- spoil the market
- spon
- stand-by-area
- stand-by-bed
- stand-by-bunk
- stand-by-universe
- standard
- staple bullet
- stare what stare
- stead
- steady
- steady
- steady pom pi pi
- steady steady eat vermicelli
- steam
- steamboat
- step
- step jambu
- stone
- storemando
- strawberry
- strawberry generation
- study mama
- stun like vegetable
- stupiak
- stylo
- stylo milo
- suck thumb
- sugee cake
- sup
- super white horse
- sure anot
- sure bo
- sure got
- sure have
- switch off
- switch on
- switched off
- switched on
- ta liao superstar
- tactical movement
- take
- take cover
- take your time
- talk cock
- talk cock sing song
- talk cock sing song play ping pong
- tank
- tankie
- taupoked
- taupokee
- taupoker
- teguk session
- tekan session
- telt
- terrigible
- terror
- terror
- tetno
- thank yout
- that's why
- then
- then you know
- there
- thon
- three-stripe general
- throw paper
- thunder tea rice
- ti
- tiang kha pager
- tiger show
- times
- tiong sim is a lie, hongster never die
- tml
- tok tok man
- tomolo
- topo general
- topo king
- toto
- touch your heart
- two-stripe general
- uncle
- understand
- understooded
- unglam
- until
- up lorry
- upon
- upz
- uwu bird
- very the
- virus
- void deck
- vomit blood
- wait
- wait later
- wait long long
- wake up one's idea
- walk somemore
- wantan noodles
- wantan soup
- waps
- warrant
- wash
- water parade
- wet
- wet market
- whack
- what
- what
- what talking you
- what thing
- what time already
- when policemen wear shorts
- where can
- where got
- where got can
- where got time
- white fungus
- white horse
- whole jin gang
- why you so liddat
- win
- win liao lor
- ya
- yaya king
- yaya papaya
- yellow noodles
- you ask me, I ask who
- you die, I die, everybody die
- you think, I thought, who confirm
- you think, he thought, who confirm
- your head
- yucks
- zap
- zero point
- zha boom