28 April 2016

abnoy

tagalog

adjective

1. (informal)Oddly-behaving.

2. (informal)Crazy, in both senses of risky or mentally unstable..

Noun

abnoy

1. (informal)A freak.
2. (informal)An eccentric.
3. One of the three types of balut:
a. balut – fertilised duck egg – consumed usually around 17 days old.
b. penoy – unfertilised duck egg
c. abnoy (or bugok) – undeveloped duck egg which smells terrible and is considered ‘rotten’. Not generally recommended for consumption. Although some areas do make it into a dish called bibingkang abnoy.

Origin

English: abnormal

Example

Yep, the politicians are just like bibingkang abnoy: their corrupt practices smell like hell, but their dirty money tastes like heaven.
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Today’s quote

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

– Harper Lee

On this day

28 April 1789 – Mutiny on the ‘Bounty’. Lieutenant Bligh and 18 of his crew from the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, are set afloat in an open boat following a mutiny led by Christian Fletcher. After 47 days Bligh landed the boat on Timor, in the Dutch East Indies. The mutineers settled on Pitcairn Island and in Tahiti. In 1856, the British Government granted Norfolk Island to the Pitcairners because population growth had outgrown the small island.

28 April 1926 – birth of Harper Lee, American author. Harper wrote the iconic ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, which detailed the racism that she witnessed as she grew up in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Died 19 February 2016.

28 April 1945 – Italians execute former dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci.

28 April 1996 – Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, when Martin Bryant shoots 35 people dead. He is currently serving a life sentence for the murders.