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"ref": "2016 December 9, Adam Boult, quoting Elijah Quashie, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in The Daily Telegraph",
"text": "It caught me off guard because it was hench. My mind was like, ‘right, this burger’s hench’. I looked at it, right, ‘that look peng’, and it hit me two thirds of the way in, I clocked that the burger was not peng at all, it was just hench.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings",
"text": "I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 November 12, DigDat (lyrics and music), “Air Force (Remix)” ft. K Trap, Krept, and Konan",
"roman": "Peng bujj got my fiends all coughing",
"text": "I just hit two cells with my right hand",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid."
],
"links": [
[
"quality",
"quality"
],
[
"excellent",
"excellent"
],
[
"splendid",
"splendid"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly MTE",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly MTE, MLE) Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "excellent"
}
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɛŋ/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pengers"
},
{
"word": "leng"
},
{
"word": "lengers"
},
{
"word": "kweng"
},
{
"word": "kwengers"
}
],
"word": "peng"
}
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