peng

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 (péng).

peng (usually uncountable, plural pengs)

1. (Chinese mythology) A legendary enormous bird.

• roc

From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).

peng (not comparable)

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial) iced; with ice added
   • 1992 February 21, Goh, HanLin, “touchy subject”, in soc.culture.asean, Usenet:

     Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!

   • 1992 August 4, Beng Ting, “Malaysian food”, in soc.culture.asean, Usenet:

     Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...

   • 2005 May 14, Liew, Ir., “Re: XX Pc User 2 - usb2COM.jpg”, in tmnet.communities, Usenet:

     *sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*

   • 2018 August, N, Trisha, quoting Everling Ang, “Ang’s ‘kopi peng’ is worth waiting half an hour for”, in The Star‎, OCLC 769589601:

     I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.

Etymology unknown, attested in the UK c. 2000. Documented possibilities include:

1. From Jamaican Creole kushempeng (“high-quality marijuana”).[en 1]
2. From clipping of penguin (“flightless sea bird”), deemed quintessentially cute.[en 1]

peng (comparative penger, superlative pengest)

1. (MLE) Physically or sexually attractive.

   Synonyms: fit, hot

   • 2011, “Bulldozers”, in Ancient Future, performed by Cyrus Malachi:

     Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.

   • 2016, Gunna Grimes (lyrics), “DPMO”, in #FingsOnThings, performed by 86:

     I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud

2. (MLE) Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid.
   • 2016 December 9, Boult, Adam, quoting Quashie, Elijah, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in The Daily Telegraph‎:

     It caught me off guard because it was hench. My mind was like, ‘right, this burger’s hench’. I looked at it, right, ‘that look peng’, and it hit me two thirds of the way in, I clocked that the burger was not peng at all, it was just hench.

• (sexually attractive): See also Thesaurus:sexy
• (of the highest quality): See also Thesaurus:excellent

• (of the highest quality): peng ting

Nasalized form *pank'-u, from Proto-Albanian *pangi that results the final umlauted form peng. Possibly a derivative of mpij (cf. brej > breng, faj > fengem etc). Cognate to Old English fang. Alternatively from Latin pignus.

peng m (indefinite plural pengje, definite singular pengu, definite plural pengjet)

1. mortgage, guarantee, guaranty
2. hostage, pledge
3. obstacle, hindrance, hurdle
4. ransom
5. (chess) pawn

• mpij

• pengë

• päng

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [pɛŋ]

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peng

1. bang (a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound)

• peng in Duden online

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (“frequentative suffix”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛŋɡ]

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• Hyphenation: peng

peng

1. (intransitive) to ring, jingle (to give out a loud, resonant sound as when striking together two pieces of metal)
2. (intransitive, of musical instrument) to twang

• pengés
• penget
• pengő

peng

1. Nonstandard spelling of pēng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of péng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pěng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pèng.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋː/ (example of pronunciation)

peng m (definite singular pengen, indefinite plural pengar, definite plural pengane)

1. Alternative form of penge

From Old Norse peningr and pengr.

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋː

peng c

1. a coin
2. (mostly in plural) money

   Du ska få en peng när du fyller

   You'll get money for your birthday

   Nyutbildade får inga pengar till semester

   Graduates get no money for vacation

   Pengarna eller livet!

   The money or your life!

• The first sample sentence (Du ska få en peng) gives evidence of a rare exception where the singular of peng is used to mean money, and not a coin. Another example is veckopeng/månadspeng, meaning weekly/monthly allowance. However, compounds are formed with the ancient plural genitive penga-.

coin

• mynt
• penning
• slant

money

• bagis
• deg
• kontanter
• kosing
• medel
• tillgångar

coin

• guldpeng
• pengapung
• pengapåse

money

• fickpengar
• månadspeng
• pengabrist
• pengaflöde
• pengastinn
• skattepengar
• småpengar
• veckopeng

• peng in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)