食kentang

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Chinese[edit]

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (食kentang)		食	kentang
simp. ^#(食kentang)		食	kentang
alternative forms		食kantang
Literally: “to eat potatoes”.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Particularly: “Hokkien”

Verb[edit]

食kentang

(Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien, of a person) to be westernized; to not speak any Chinese (of an ethnic Chinese)
- (Can we date this quote?), “阿兄唐山人”‎^[1]performed by 牛馬丁:
  
  看人食西餐　學人食干冬 [Teochew, trad.]
  看人食西餐　学人食干冬 [Teochew, simp.]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants[edit]

→ English: jiak kentang

See also[edit]

蕳砃／𫈉砃 (“potato”)
English: banana

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