peng
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋ
ipa: [p˭eŋ(˦)]
note: some speakers
ipa: [p˭ɪŋ(˦)]
Forms: form: penger
form: pengest
form: pengers
form: leng
form: lengers
form: kweng
form: kwengers
Etymology: Etymology unknown, attested in the UK c. 2000. Documented possibilities include:
* From Jamaican Creole kushempeng (“high-quality marijuana”).
* From a clipping of penguin (“flightless sea bird”), deemed quintessentially cute.
* From Cantonese 又平又靚 /又平又靓 (jau⁶ peng⁴ jau⁶ leng³, “cheap and also good quality”), see also 平靚正 /平靓正 (peng⁴ leng³ zeng³, “low cost, high quality”), often heard from hawkers in major Chinatowns.
Senses: examples: text: Spread your chick like a centrefold / 'Cause she's penger than a scented rose.
ref: 2011, “Bulldozers”, in Ancient Future, performed by Cyrus Malachi:
text: 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
ref: 2016, “DPMO”, in Gunna Grimes (lyrics), #FingsOnThings, performed by 86:
text: I see a peng girl, then I pose (chillin') / If she ain't on it, I ghost
ref: 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:
text: Look at the decors, hello, hola, who is that lengers?
ref: 2020 October 23, Triggy, “Po’style”, 1:57–02:01:
text: I need me a big bat one, that’s a leng ting […]
Baby, baby, hold it down, why not waste, back side brown, no panties under that gown, golden brown, peng, leng, hold that skeng, bad b come link me a ten
ref: 2021 February 2, #CHR W2rksy x DB, “No Cap”, 1:13–1:16 and 1:59–2:08:
text: Dom (David Jonsson): You know, you're very—
Yas (Vivian Oparah): Peng? Refreshingly disarming?
Dom: You ask a lot of questions.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:
synonyms: word: fit
word: hot
word: leng
word: alluring
word: appealing
word: appetizing
word: attracting
word: attractive
word: captivating
word: charming
word: coying
word: desirable
word: engaging
word: enticing
word: enticive
word: exciting
word: fascinating
word: fetching
word: heart-robbing
word: hot
word: illecebrous
word: inviting
word: prepossessing
word: seducing
word: seductive
word: smoking hot
word: taking
word: tempting
word: winning
word: winsome
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
qualifier: chiefly MTE
glosses: Physically or sexually attractive.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2016 December 9, Adam Boult, quoting Elijah Quashie, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!
ref: 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:
text: I just hit two cells with my right hand
Peng bujj got my fiends all coughing
ref: 2018 November 12, DigDat, “Air Force (Remix)” ft. K Trap, Krept, and Konan:
synonyms: word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
qualifier: chiefly MTE
glosses: Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid.
Derived terms: sense: of the highest quality
word: peng ting