英和和英

語源 1

Borrowed from Japanese 柿(カキ) (kaki).

名詞

kaki (plural kakis)

1. A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).

語源 2

From Malay kaki (“legs, feet, accomplices”). Unrelated to Hokkien and Teochew 家己人 (ka-kī-lâng / ga gi nang, “one of us”).

発音

• (Singapore) IPA: /ˈkɑki/, [ˈkaki]

名詞

kaki (plural kakis)

1. (Singlish) A close friend, or group of friends with a shared common interest.
   • 2000, Dennis Wee, Sylvia Fong, Making Luck with Your Hands, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore, page 59:

     My usual mahjong kaki.

   • 2000 July 2, Yeow Kai Chai, The Sunday Times (Sunday Plus), quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page 5:

     He has his posse of stylist-kakis.

   • 2023, Narayanan Ganapathy, quoting an Omega gang member, Gangs and Minorities in Singapore: Masculinity, Marginalization and Resistance, Bristol University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     That’s why gang members always move as a group, because when your group is big … when your enemy sees you with many kakis [peers], they will also think want to attack you or not […]

語源 3

形容詞

kaki

1. Misspelling of khaki.

アナグラム

• kaik