Insik wakang, kaon, kalibang
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- Intsik gwakang, kaon, kalibang
- Insik wákang, káun, kalibang
- Insik wakang, baboy tikangkang, kaon, kalibang (“Chinese (laborer), I work, pose like a pig, eat, and shit!”)
Etymology
From Insik (“Chinese”) + wakang (“ethnic slur expression used to tease Chinese”) + kaon (“to eat”) + kalibang (“to defecate”).
Literally "Chinese (laborer), I work, eat, and shit!". Also rhyming as a limerick. Likely used during the late 1800s in the Late Spanish Colonial Era in the Philippines, when opium dens were rampant and many overseas Chinese migrants worked as low-wage laborers. Compare with Tagalog Intsik beho, tulo laway!
Phrase
Insik wákang, káon, kalibang!
- (ethnic slur, slang, derogatory, offensive, dated) A limerick used to tease or insult a Chinese person.
Usage notes
- Usage is usually particularly offensive or provocative as a derogatory ethnic slur limerick from its crude or pejorative connotations in the past, especially to Chinese Filipinos.
Derived terms
- Insik wakang!
- wákang insik, tsíbay!
- wakang!
- Tsekwa!
References
- John U. Wolff (1972) A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan