jiak kentang

短语

发音

其它 /ˌt͡s˭jaʔ˨˩ ˈk˭ən˧.t˭aŋ˦/
其它 /ˌt͡ɕ˭j-/
其它 /- ˈk˭an-/

别名

jiak kantang

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Of a person, to be westernized; to have abandoned one's own cultural traditions in favor of a westernized lifestyle.

    新加坡 贬义 习语
  2. 2.

    Of an ethnically Chinese person, to be mostly monolingual in English and unable to speak Chinese well.

    新加坡 贬义 习语
  3. 3.

    To eat potatoes.

    新加坡 幽默 罕用
adj.
  1. 1.

    Westernized; rejecting aspects of one's own culture or heritage in favor of Western ideologies and practices.

    新加坡 贬义 习语

词源

From Malaysian and Singaporean Hokkien 食kentang or 食蕳砃 /食𫈉砃 (chia̍h kan-tang), from 食 (chia̍h, “to eat”) + Malay kentang (“potatoes”). Historically, the choice of potatoes over rice as a staple food, or its inclusion in one’s diet was seen as a shift towards a more Westernized lifestyle.

来源：wiktionary