kanto girl
kanto girl · kanto girls
An office girlAn office girl.
Meaning
1 senses(Philippines, slang)An office girl.
Origin
From kanto boy, but the latter term was replaced with girl as a female equivalent, whereasFrom kanto boy, but the latter term was replaced with girl as a female equivalent, whereas the former term was originally from Japanese 官庁(かんちょう) (kanchō, “government office”), borrowed in the Philippines during WW2 according to Potet (2016), but it was eventually replaced with Tagalog kanto (“corner, especially of two streets”), which was reinterpreted to refer to an "office corner".
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Forms
plural: kanto girls| Singular | kanto girl |
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Word family
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