"ponteng" meaning in English

See ponteng in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: pontengs [present, singular, third-person], pontenging [participle, present], pontenged [participle, past], pontenged [past]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay ponteng. Etymology templates: {{unadapted borrowing|en|ms|ponteng}} Unadapted borrowing from Malay ponteng Head templates: {{en-verb}} ponteng (third-person singular simple present pontengs, present participle pontenging, simple past and past participle pontenged)
  1. (Singlish, Manglish) To skip (school or work); play truant. Tags: Manglish, Singlish
    Sense id: en-ponteng-en-verb-eMtCPeL4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Manglish, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Singlish, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 52 16 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 41 19 39

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ms",
        "3": "ponteng"
      },
      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from Malay ponteng",
      "name": "unadapted borrowing"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from Malay ponteng.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pontengs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pontenging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pontenged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pontenged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ponteng (third-person singular simple present pontengs, present participle pontenging, simple past and past participle pontenged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Manglish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singlish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 16 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 19 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Adibah Amin, As I was Passing, volume 2, page 197:",
          "text": "[…] she rushed up to me at the end shouting: \"Hei you came! Did you ponteng work?\"\nI do not advocated \"pontenging\" of course but I do strongly recommend one primary school sports meet at least for each parent and soon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Quoted in 2009, Rosaly Puthucheary, Different Voices: The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel (page 124)",
          "text": "But that was the best place to spend the day if you pontenged school. It was so cool and quiet."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To skip (school or work); play truant."
      ],
      "id": "en-ponteng-en-verb-eMtCPeL4",
      "links": [
        [
          "skip",
          "skip"
        ],
        [
          "play truant",
          "play truant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singlish, Manglish) To skip (school or work); play truant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Manglish",
        "Singlish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ponteng"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ms",
        "3": "ponteng"
      },
      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from Malay ponteng",
      "name": "unadapted borrowing"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from Malay ponteng.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pontengs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pontenging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pontenged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pontenged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ponteng (third-person singular simple present pontengs, present participle pontenging, simple past and past participle pontenged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms borrowed from Malay",
        "English terms derived from Malay",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English unadapted borrowings from Malay",
        "English verbs",
        "Manglish",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Singlish"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Adibah Amin, As I was Passing, volume 2, page 197:",
          "text": "[…] she rushed up to me at the end shouting: \"Hei you came! Did you ponteng work?\"\nI do not advocated \"pontenging\" of course but I do strongly recommend one primary school sports meet at least for each parent and soon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Quoted in 2009, Rosaly Puthucheary, Different Voices: The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel (page 124)",
          "text": "But that was the best place to spend the day if you pontenged school. It was so cool and quiet."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To skip (school or work); play truant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "skip",
          "skip"
        ],
        [
          "play truant",
          "play truant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singlish, Manglish) To skip (school or work); play truant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Manglish",
        "Singlish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ponteng"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ponteng meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.