senget
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[edit]senget (comparative more senget, superlative most senget)
- (Singlish, Manglish) Askew, uneven, not straight.
- (Singlish, by extension, never attributive) Crooked or dishevelled.
- 1991 March 26, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited:
- What do you dislike about your appearance? My hair. It’s very difficult to maintain and when it’s too long it becomes senget (untidy).
References
[edit]- Lee, Jack Tsen-Ta (2004) “senget”, in A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English[1]
German
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Verb
[edit]senget
Malay
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Malaysian) IPA(key): /se.ŋet/
Adjective
[edit]séngét (Jawi spelling سيڠيت)
Further reading
[edit]- “senget” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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