Engrish

Hilariously bad overliteral translations from Japanese to English.

Examples:
“All your base are belong to us.” (Your bases are all under our control.)
“Ant death.” (Pest killer.)
“Watch out flying rock.” (Beware of falling rocks.)

We need to say the word in the example to publish the definition now so uhh Engrish

by AStupidDeer December 24, 2022

Engrish

When words in the English language are used ‘oddly’ often in weird orders or confusing concoctions that make little to no sense whatsoever, but are found extremely funny by internet users. ‘Engrish’ is most often found on miss translations of things, particularly signs.

“I went out to the store, and the bathroom sign outside the urinal said: Man urinal cave”

“My pancake package came with a sticker saying: Stay hungry, stay foolish (inspired by u/revidyks on Reddit)

“The sign on the freeway near the basically parking said: Please, O not forget to lock you bycic (-u/OOF_the_demopan on Reddit)
Engrish

by Le mentor of the reading crabs April 8, 2024

Engrish

1. English spoken by non-native speakers
2. AAVE, idk why it counts
3. Polandball speak

1. Person 1: “I took a day of rife!” Person 2: “Wat? You speak Engrish!”
2. Person 1: “Ok ma homies, I wanna get that thin’ or I'm gettin’ mad!”
3. “Polan cannot into space”

by Polandballer May 14, 2025

Engrish Overroad

A condition caused by gratuitous amounts of Engrish used in popular Japanese video games.

I suffered Engrish Overroad after playing King of Fighters '98 for five straight hours.

by Zonic Berm April 29, 2009

Engrish Exclamation Mark

When a foreigner tries to type English they sometimes use an unnecessary space between the last word and the exclamation mark.

French Guy: Oh man, that is awesome !
British Guy: Damn your Engrish exclamation marks!

by Xavier-Marxel January 26, 2010

Engrish Breakfast

After a night on the tiles that ended with eating dodgy oriental food one wakes up in the morning having shit the bed with undigested bean sprouts, shitaki mushrooms etc caked on the bed spread.

Engrish Breakfast "oh dear some one spilled chinese take away on my bed spread" pause "oh fuck evasive action"

by mabawsa March 13, 2009

perfect engrish

Perfect engrish is an improper way of using English in a sentence, in which that the meaning can only be conveyed to the writer, however, to other people, it would appear to be a jumbled up sentence that makes no sense head or tail and conveys an awkward meaning.
An example of prefect engrish: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Perfect Engrish: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

by Asairo August 28, 2010