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'cher
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cher Cher chèr
English
Alternative forms
en cher
Etymology
en teacher.
Pronunciation
en [ˈt͡ʃə] Singapore
Noun
en Manglish Singlish A teacher a person who teaches in a school.
en mrbrown The Great Singlish/Singapore Dialect Dictionary mrbrown.com 14 August 1998 http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/1998/08/the_great_singl.html Student A: "Cher cher! Can I go to the loo?" Teacher: "Go lah go lah!". 16 October 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171007033452/http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/1998/08/the_great_singl.html 7 October 2017
en 2 May 2014 Joshua Goh TheSmartLocal http://www.thesmartlocal.com/read/singapore-slang-2 Teacher: WHO DID THAT? B: Cher cher, him! I saw! *points to A*
en 9 Mar 2014 Manoj Harjani Chapalang Magazine http://www.hellochapalang.com/playing-cher/ I suppose it was a lot better than being addressed as ‘cher, but at the time I kept wishing I had ended up in a junior college instead.
Anagrams
en cehr ECHR Rech Herc EHRC
en Education
Category:Singapore English
Category:Malaysian English