English
geh kiang
Geh kiang comes from Hokkien 假勥 ‘fake cleverness’.
- Hokkienmodern假勥ké-khiàng‘fake cleverness’
- Englishearliest quotation 2005geh kiang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Hokkienmodern假勥ké-khiàng‘fake cleverness’
- Englishearliest quotation 2005geh kiang
Earliest quotation: 2005, Philip Lee, The New Paper: “[O]ne never knows how such unsolicited advice might be…”
Every English word from Hokkien 假勥
Today it means
adj Overconfident and pretending to be clever.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hokkien 假勥 / geh kiang