dyologs
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- jologs – common
- jolog
- jologz
Etymology
Possibly from a blend of dilis (“anchovy”) + tuyo (“dried fish”) + itlog (“egg”) + -s, food which poor people eat.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: dyo‧logs
- IPA(key): /ˈdjoloɡs/, [ˈdjo.loɡs]
Adjective
dyologs (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜎᜓᜄ᜔ᜐ᜔)
- (slang) unfashionable; unstylish; in poor taste
- Synonyms: baduy, tsaka, pandyologs
- Ngayon ka lang bumili ng damit, dyologs na damit pa.
- You only bought clothes now, and you bought unfashionable clothes.
- Nang nauso ang mga selpon, naging dyologs ang mga pager at beeper hanggang nawala na ang mga ito sa araw-araw na kagamitan.
- When cellphones became popular, beepers and pagers became unfashionable until these disappeared from everyday things.
Derived terms
- dyologin
- dyumologs
- magdyologs
- pandyologs
Noun
dyologs (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜎᜓᜄ᜔ᜐ᜔)
- (slang) youngster from the slum area (usually a teenager)
- May mga dyologs na nakatira doon sa may estero.
- Some slum youngster live by the estuary.
- (slang) person exhibiting the crude behavior of slum youngsters
- Wag ka nga magulo, dyologs ka ...
- Hey cut it out, you're being dyologs ...
See also
- adik
- gago
- konyo
- korni
- panggulo
- skwaking
- tambay
Further reading
- R. David Paul Zorc, Rachel L. San Miguel, Annabella M. Sarra, Tagalog Slang Dictionary (1991)
- Copongcopong's Pinoy Slang Dictionary