"Alingag-Ngag" is a word in HILIGAYNON
alingág-ngag - A little deaf, hard of
hearing; to be a little deaf, have one’s sense
of hearing slightly impaired. Alingágngag
siá. He is slightly deaf. Sang isá ka simána
maánting pa siá, ápang karón
nagalingágngag na. A week ago he could
still hear well, but now he is a little deaf.
Sán-o pa ikáw magalingágngag? When
did you have your sense of hearing
impaired? Ginaalingagngagán akó sa íya.
He seems to me to be slightly deaf.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
ágbà - Dumb, mum, silent, taciturn (applied to persons who habitually talk little, and rarely allow themselves to be drawn …
Read the complete definitionmaalingágngag - A little deaf, not hearing well, hard of hearing. (cf. alingágngag).
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