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名詞

agar-agar (uncountable)

1. Agar.
   • 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian‎:

     That done, you heat soya milk with oil and several flakes of agar-agar – a tasteless vegan alternative to gelatine – which dissolve into the liquid over 10 minutes, except they don’t, not really.

2. (Singapore, Malaysia) A jelly dessert made from agar.

語源 2

From Malay agak-agak. Here, the letter k represents a glottal stop, but it is elided by many speakers in Singapore.

発音

• (Singapore) IPA: /ˈɑɡɑ ˌɑɡɑ/

動詞

agar-agar (invariable)

1. (Singapore, Singlish) Alternative spelling of agak-agak (“to estimate”).
   • 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 17, page 99:

     So I just got to agar-agar lor.

形容詞

agar-agar (not comparable)

1. (Singapore, Singlish) Alternative spelling of agak-agak (“involving guesswork”).