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Reyes himself wrote a book on the subject entitled Swardspeak: A Preliminary Study. [6] "Sward" is an outdated slang for 'gay male' in the Philippines. [7] [unreliable source] The origin of the individual words and phrases, however, has existed longer and come from a variety of sources. [8]
Philippine English also borrows words from Philippine languages, especially native plant and animal names (e.g. ampalaya and balimbing), and cultural concepts with no exact English equivalents such as kilig and bayanihan. Some borrowings from Philippine languages have entered mainstream English, such as abaca and ylang-ylang.
Slang terms derived from gago are kagaguhan ("a foolish action" [noun form]), ogag (same meaning as gago), [27] and nakakagago ("to be made to feel stupid"). [ 22 ] Ulol , loko , and sira ulo can be used similarly, but they are not interchangeable; they also imply madness or mental retardation on top of stupidity.
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Swardspeak is a kind of Taglish/Englog LGBT slang used by the LGBT demographic of the Philippines. It is a form of slang that uses words and terms primarily from Philippine English, Tagalog/Filipino, and/or Cebuano and Hiligaynon, and occasionally as well as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Sanskrit, or other languages. Names of celebrities ...
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Budots is a Bisaya slang word for slacker (Tagalog: tambay). [1] An undergraduate thesis published in University of the Philippines Mindanao suggests the slang originated from the Bisaya word burot meaning "to inflate," a euphemism to the glue-sniffing juvenile delinquents called "rugby boys."