sarpork

English

Etymology

Respelling of English support to indicate Singlish pronunciation. Compare Cantonese 十卜 (sap6 pok1).

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /sapɒʔ/

Verb

sarpork (third-person singular simple present sarporks, present participle sarporking, simple past and past participle sarporked)

1. (transitive, Singapore, informal) To provide encouragement or to stand by someone or something.
   • 2007 14 October, Denny Koh, “I ish Sarpork!!”, in Honey-den‎^[1] (blog), Singapore, retrieved 30 March 2016:

     As long as she is happy, I will support her or should I say SARPORK!!

   • 2009 20 January, TehJarVu, “Mouth & Foot Painting Artists' Greeting Cards”, in Sgforums‎^[2] (forum), retrieved 25 March 2016:

     They quite poor ting what. If can sarpork, sarpork lor…If can give, give.

   • 2010 21 April, TheMasquerade, “Best ramen in Singapore”, in Hardwarezone Forum‎^[3] (forum), retrieved 26 March 2016:

     Dont sarpork fake ramen shop in sg like ramen-ten, ramenplay, ken noodle house, also ippudo, ajisen, tampopo are still ok but getting more and more china-fied.

   • 2011 25 November, Eyke, “Pls sarpork Singapore Children's Society Fundraising!”, in My car forum‎^[4] (forum), retrieved 23 March 2016:

     Pls sarpork Singapore Children's Society Fundraising!

   • 2012 22 October, Koh Jing De, Twitter‎^[5] (Twitter), retrieved 26 March 2016:

     Only one day left. Can one la! I shall mentally sarpork you! Hehe!

   • 2014 3 June, Martino Tan, “Check out some of the names who contributed to CPF blogger’s $72k crowdfunded legal fees”, in Mothership.SG‎^[6] (online), retrieved 27 March 2016:

     Someone who thinks he/she has a sense of humour. Yes, we sarpork you too.

   • 2014 14 July, Joanne Ng, “Germany is MY Champion!!!”, in Joanne-says.com‎^[7] (blog), retrieved 25 March 2016:

     Even if they don't win the champion, I'll still sarpork and love them!!!

   • 2015 6 June, BabuSingh, “Should we sarpork LTK given that he twisted facts about Punggol East TC account?”, in SgTalk forum‎^[8] (forum), retrieved 25 March 2016:

     Should we sarpork such a person and vote him into Parliament?

   • 2015 9 October, Tong Cai Sheng, “All Singapore Stuff's Timeline”, in Facebook‎^[9] (Facebook), retrieved 25 March 2016:

     Wa chio bu alert must sarpork!

   • 2016 22 March, Himeko Ong, Twitter‎^[10] (Twitter), retrieved 25 March 2016:

     I never watch long long time ago but my Tutee is acting in LLTA2 and his mum just asked me to go for the GALA tmr to sarpork him.