EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
to eat greedily; to gobble...
to be able to catch (with a hook); to be able to s...
to be able to let go; to be able to release one's ...
Pang-uri
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/sab-SAB/
FIL: Ang paraan ng pagkain na mabilis, magulo, at parang hayop na sumusubsob sa pagkain.
EN: to eat greedily; to gobble
This is how you eat when you're 'gutom na gutom' and the food finally arrives. It's eating with zero chill, like a pig at a trough. No more 'pa-demure'. Your face is practically in the bowl. Think 'unli-rice' challenges or that one cousin at the fiesta who piles their plate to the sky. That's 'sumasabsab'.
Almost always used in a derogatory or informal way to describe messy or voracious eating. The verb form is 'sumabsab' or 'sabsabin'.
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🇵🇭 Huwag kang sumabsab ng pagkain, para kang hindi kumain ng isang linggo.
🇺🇸 Don't gobble your food, you look like you haven't eaten in a week.
🇵🇭 Pinanood niya ang mga baboy na sumasabsab sa kanilang labangan.
🇺🇸 He watched the pigs eating greedily from their trough.
Pang-uri
Tumutukoy sa isang tao na walang anumang ugnayang pampamilya o relasyon sa dugo sa isa pang tao.