Mat Salleh

English Noun 1 en Malaysia A white person. en 2005 Syed Akbar Ali To Digress a Little 18 The Mat Sallehs must include the colonialists and now the genocidal Americans. Malay Etymology Perhaps a spelling variant of ms mat salih, from ms mat a colloquial term for a specific person salih weird. Influenced, via folk etymology, by ms Salleh (a person name). Perhaps borrowed from ms en mad en sailor, referring to unruly, drunk British sailors who fought at ports and a euphemism used by the colonial British authorities. Pronunciation ms /mat saleh/ ms [mät̚ säle̞h, -eh, -ɪh] Johor-Riau Noun - 1 ms slang white person, usually a male. ms orang putih ms Minah Salleh<qq:a white woman>