Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vegetable english

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables
veg-etable english
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Nickname for Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician.

Humorous

Etymology

Pun on Tsai's name in Mandarin 蔡英文 (Cài Yīngwén), which is homophonous to 菜 (cài, “vegetable”) + 英文 (Yīngwén, “English”).

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What does vegetable english mean?
Nickname for Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician.
Where does vegetable english come from?
Pun on Tsai's name in Mandarin 蔡英文 (Cài Yīngwén), which is homophonous to 菜 (cài, “vegetable”) + 英文 (Yīngwén, “English”).

How to pronounce vegetable english

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