buang
English
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Pronunciation
(Singapore) IPA(key): /ˈbuːʌŋ/
Verb
buang (third-person singular simple present buangs, present participle buanging, simple past and past participle buanged)
- (Singapore, colloquial, informal) To discard or throw something out.
- 2004 March 2, Kilometric, “Singapore Birth Rate”, in googlegroups:
- The RSAF attachment in France and Australia is a very good example. If they are in Singapore, many of these RSAF wives will not bother to have babies at all. Likewise in Batam, Singapore men are known to "buang sperm" like water over there.
- 2004 October 28, Xiaxue, “Blogging TV Critic!”, in blogspot.sg:
- Being the deep-thinking intellectual I am, I sat in front of my telly, contemplating certain important issues before setting out to watch the 9 o'clock show - The Champion, starring the voluptuous Fiona Xie, no-breasted Jeanette Aw, and cute Toro Tan (I don't know Toro's surname so I anyhow buang).
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Cebuano
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Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bu‧ang
Tagalog
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Etymology
Borrowed from Cebuano
Noun
buang
- (derogatory) a stupid person
- 2017, Rodrigo Duterte (via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Baka nga ito si Kim Jong-un, ‘yung t*****. You know, if that guy… I do not think that he is ready but he is playing with dangerous toys, ‘yang buang na ‘yan,...
- 2017, Rodrigo Duterte (via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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