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~ Monday, June 28, 2004
PINOY PONG The Northern Filipino language Ilocano is particularly brilliant on words for bad smells. Here are some of them: angpep - smell of soiled underwear bayoot - smell of dried urine bunglug - smell of rancid lard bungtot - smell of dung anag - smell of human faeces dangiit - smell of dried animal waste laet - smell of putrefying meat angtit - smell of fermenting fish bangles - smell of spoiled vegetables banglig - smell of rancid oil buyok - smell of rotten flesh daniir - smell of corpses anglit - underarm odour payod - general body odour anglem - smell of burning cotton bang-eg - smell of rotten wood dulpet - smell of dirty clothes pangso - smell of trousers angsoot - smell of burnt garbage aniit - smell of burning leather angtem - smell of burning flesh baniit - smell of burned food bang-i - smell of toast panoos - smell of smoke sanger - strong smell of liquor sumusum - smell of soil after rain Also: agabbawang - to smell like garlic agatkaldingda: to smell like goats agappugot - to smell like a bogeyman agallugit - to smell like chicken shit Source: Ilocano (Hippocrene); please excuse lack of proper accents on the words and possible minor errors on exact meaning. |