"kan cheong" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002 August 13, Michelle Ho, quoting Diana Liaw, The Straits Times, Singapore, page L8",
          "text": "I was so ‘kancheong’ (Cantonese for worried) about his tests that I woke him up at 5:30 am to remind him not to make mistakes.",
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          "text": "I wasn’t always this kan cheong about elections.",
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          "text": "[…] they will just become more kan cheong and think that all the mata and SCDF kena nuked or something […]",
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        "(Singlish, Manglish) Nervous, anxious, keyed up"
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      "ipa": "[ˌkän˧ ˈt͡ʃjɔŋ˦]",
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        "Singapore"
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      "ipa": "[- ˈt͡ɕj-]",
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      "name": "bor"
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