ah pui

plural ah puis

1. Singaporederogatoryinformalfatty (a fat person)

   Lim was also called Ah Pui ("fatty" in Hokkien) by his friends, encouraging him to do something about how others perceived him.

   2016 November 14, The New Paper, Singapore

   3 more examples

   The comic duo [Wang Sha and Ye Feng] were Singapore’s own Laurel and Hardy, and their Ah Pui and Ah San (The Fat and the Thin) show was enjoyed by young and old alike.

   1998 January 19, The Straits Times, Singapore

   Melinda, diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia, remembered her uncle and aunt calling her “Ah Pui”- meaning “stupid, fat girl”.

   2009, Esther Rothblum, Sondra Solovay, The Fat Studies Reader, page 131

   She treated the cries of “Ah pui ah!” and “Fatty bombom!” as cosmic background radiation, and learned to drift quietly into sharp imaginings when her classmates babbled in the impassably alien tones of Mandarin as though she was not there.

   2014, Jolene Tan, A certain exposure