‘A Clockwork Orange’ possibly comes from Malay ‘orang’. Although Burgess alternatively credited a cockney expression, but no record of such an expression exists.
Comment on The forest guy
starlinguk@lemmy.world 10 hours agoOrang means human or person (not “guy”, honestly), (h)utan means forest.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
My other favourite Malay animal name is pangolin.
“What’s that thing that rolls up?”
“Thing-that-rolls-up (pengguling)”.
“Pangolin?”
“Sure lah”