ang moh
A white person, a Westerner (“red hair”). Usually just descriptive, sometimes cheeky.
“The ang moh at the stall ordered his kopi in Hokkien.”
Also: ang mo
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Ang moh in the Singlish dictionary: what it means, where it comes from and how it’s said.
A white person, a Westerner (“red hair”). Usually just descriptive, sometimes cheeky.
“The ang moh at the stall ordered his kopi in Hokkien.”
Also: ang mo
Search the dictionary · ← amah · angbao →
A white person, a Westerner (“red hair”). Usually just descriptive, sometimes cheeky. It’s a noun.
From Hokkien. Other Singlish words from Hokkien include ah pek, ah soh, aiyah and aiyoh.
“The ang moh at the stall ordered his kopi in Hokkien.”
Singlish has no fixed spelling: people also write “ang mo”.
Liddat’s own words, from the Singlish dictionary: 312 words and phrases, A to Z.
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