angpow

English

Noun

angpow (plural angpows)

1. Alternative form of ang pow (“angpao, red envelope”)
   • 2004, Bala Shanmugam, Mahendhiran Nair, Corporate governance: an international perspective, →ISBN, page 75:

     It is the Chinese New Year season and one of your Chinese dealers give you an angpow (Chinese New Year packet). Opening the angpow you discover that it contains RM 50. He tells you that giving angpow is part of his custom during the festive season.

   • 2013, William Gwee, A Nyonya Mosaic: Memoirs of A Peranakan Childhood, →ISBN, page 86:

     After a wedding was over a matchmaker was generally rewarded with a leg of pork, two bottles of brandy and an angpow; one set of each from the groom's and the bride's parents.

   • 2013, Yeo Hong Eng, The Little Red Cliff, →ISBN, page 2:

     The gift of angpow was placed beside the basin. When my mum was walking out, the bomoh took the angpow and put in into his cloth bag.

   • 2016, Ming Cher, Spider Boys, →ISBN:

     Big Mole dragged Kim aside and whispered, “Don't forget to give that man an angpow later.” “I am no good at all this motherly thing—how much to give?” “One dollar is all right, it's for good luck too,” Big Mole insisted.