Seriously, i know what it refers to but how'd it come about?
It throws me every time :-\
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Seriously, i know what it refers to but how'd it come about?
It throws me every time :-\
Colloquially, Filipinos may refer to themselves as Pinoy (feminine: Pinay), which is formed by taking the last four letters of Pilipino and adding the diminutive suffix -y. The word was coined by expatriate Filipino Americans during the 1920s and was later adopted by Filipinos in the Philippines.
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Pinoy=filipino
Example: "Ikaw ang pinoy." (You are Pinoy). You'll hear a lot of filipinos toss it around a lot when they find out that someone else is also of the same mix.
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Originally Posted by Bilbo
Well I could very well be moving there in a year or five so will I be an Engpinoy?
Or a Pinoydoner?
Or a drunk bloke owning a beach bar?
Taansend serving up Pinoy coladas
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Originally Posted by Memphis
I'll be "hosting" at the bar while I pay some young bird to serve up the drinks, mate... ;)
pinoy, noypi, or fino all means having filipino blood ;D
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Originally Posted by Memphis
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He already knew that he was wandering how the word pinoy originated, i.e like why do the Aussies call us Brits Pommy's? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Julius Rain
pnoy is a slang in the phillipines, american pnoy heard it one day and started to say the term too. became popular like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bilbo
noypi is the newer term use now a days, but not as popular as the pnoy because noypi aren't use by american fillipinos as much.
fino is american slang. Usually means a fillipino-latino, comes from latinos counting filipinos as latino not asians.
flip is someone with fillipino blood even with just 1%, comes from the youth in america more often asian and black youths in ghettos.