Terms originating from Singlish
This page lists all currently defined terms with Singlish 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.
- ATB
- CB
- CB leaf
- CB plant
- CCB
- ET blade
- ET stick
- God in Heaven
- Hainanese steamboat
- JHB
- JHK
- KLKK
- KNN
- KNNB
- KNNBCCB
- KNNCCB
- KNS
- KNS
- KP
- KPKB
- LLST
- MC king
- Mao Shan Wang
- Milo Godzilla
- Milo King Kong
- Milo T-Rex
- Milo dinosaur
- Miloccino
- NATO
- NB
- NBCB
- OK can
- ORD lo
- OTOT
- PCB
- PCC
- ROC
- SMLJ
- SOC
- SWH
- TCSS
- TCSSPPP
- XDD
- XMM
- abit the
- act blur
- act blur live longer
- act cute buay cute
- ah then
- ai kia stead mai
- ai stead mai
- akshen aje
- also can
- anyhow whack
- anyhowly
- apu neh neh
- asshole dai di
- bird bird
- block catching
- blur cock
- blur king
- blur like sotong
- blur sotong
- bobo
- bobo king
- bobo shooter
- bom bom
- boomz
- bopes
- buay steady
- can also
- can anot
- can is can
- carrot
- carry
- carry balls
- chao keng warrior
- chao mugger
- cheese
- cheese prata
- chiminology
- chimness
- chiongster
- chop chop kali pok
- chut pattern
- cmi
- cock fella
- cock steam
- cockster
- coin prata
- come I clap for you
- confirm plus chop
- confirm plus guarantee got chop
- de blahdy gahmen
- dgg
- die cock stand
- die die must
- die die must have
- die die must try
- dinobu
- dllm
- don't play play
- double confirm
- drama mama
- egg
- egg prata
- ever
- fatty bom bom
- flip prata
- fuck upside down
- gabra king
- gabra like zebra
- get eaten by
- 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 army
- grandfather's road
- green bean soup
- guarantee got chop
- haiz
- happy can already
- hongster never die, tiong sim is a lie
- how can
- idle king
- ji ba boom
- just whack
- kaki
- kan cheong spider
- keng ka liao
- keng king
- kengster
- kenz
- kia stead
- kiap kiap
- kiapper
- kiasiism
- kiasiness
- kiasuism
- kiasuness
- kopi kakis
- kopi money
- kopi susu
- kopi-O licence
- kopi-cino
- laksa noodles
- lan lan suck thumb
- lao kok kok
- last time policemen wear shorts
- maggi
- maggi goreng
- maggi mee
- makan kakis
- maluated
- maluating
- mee soup
- never die before
- ni
- no action, talk only
- no fish, prawns also can
- no gahmen
- no spiak
- no standard
- off-beat
- on
- one times
- one times good one
- onion prata
- onz
- open jio
- or ya peh ya som balik ah
- or ya peh ya som balik ah roti prata chai tow kway
- or ya peh ya som balik ah roti prata char kway teow
- orbi good
- orbi quek
- orbit
- orh
- owadio
- ownself check ownself
- paiseh piece
- paktology
- paper prata
- pattern more than badminton
- pattern zuay kuay badminton
- piak piak
- plaster prata
- pon
- popz
- potong stim
- prata bomb
- prata goreng
- ps
- rabz
- rabz-kebabz
- red bean soup
- relak one corner
- sabo king
- saman auntie
- saman uncle
- save face
- say people say yourself
- screw inside out
- screw upside down
- shaggedy
- shee shee
- show face
- si
- siam one corner
- siansation
- siao on
- sign 1206
- sign extra
- snake
- snake king
- snake king
- solid bird bird
- solid chap
- spiak
- steady pom pi pi
- steady steady eat vermicelli
- step jambu
- stun
- stupiak
- stylo milo
- super white horse
- sure got
- sure have
- talk cock sing song
- talk cock sing song play ping pong
- taupoked
- taupokee
- taupoker
- teh-cino
- terbaboom
- ti
- tiong sim is a lie, hongster never die
- tml
- tok tok
- tok tok man
- tok tok mee
- topo king
- upz
- uwu
- uwu bird
- wait later
- walk somemore
- what time already
- where can
- where got
- where got can
- where got time
- why you so liddat
- win liao lor
- yaya king
- yaya papaya
- you think, I thought, who confirm
- you think, he thought, who confirm