A woman of Filipino origin or descent; a Filipina.
I asked a fellow Pinay what she thought
Example sentencesExamples
i might create a site for pinoys and pinays.
Caught between her physical appearance and her racial identity as a mixed-race Pinay, Lynda must negotiate the double-edged sword of her whiteness and its significance within US racial formations.
Near Christmas day of 1994 we were blessed by a Pinay from Heaven.
I do think that my influences of growing up an American-born Pinay and reading mostly western narratives as a student and then being a child in a Filipino household where all the adults around me were oral storytellers has made me a hybrid of these worlds.
Many of the Filipinas who migrate to Germany are Pinay in search of the so-called "good life."
Pinoys were heavily over-represented compared to Pinays in Hawaii and on the mainland.
While most Filipino American artists have yet to register on American culture's radar screen, one Pinay has single-handedly redefined and influenced American popular culture for over twenty years.
I have met many Pinays at writers' conferences that have said that it was the first time in their literary lives that they could see themselves in a work of literature when they read your book.
I sometimes hear from other Pinays that my work is too "painful" to read, or "too hard" to teach, and I interpret these statements as lines being drawn, the opposite of community.
There's another Pinay in the beauty contest.
Origin
Tagalog.
Definition of Pinay in US English:
Pinay
nounˈpiˌnī
A woman of Filipino origin or descent; a Filipina.
I asked a fellow Pinay what she thought
Example sentencesExamples
i might create a site for pinoys and pinays.
Near Christmas day of 1994 we were blessed by a Pinay from Heaven.
Many of the Filipinas who migrate to Germany are Pinay in search of the so-called "good life."
Pinoys were heavily over-represented compared to Pinays in Hawaii and on the mainland.
While most Filipino American artists have yet to register on American culture's radar screen, one Pinay has single-handedly redefined and influenced American popular culture for over twenty years.
I sometimes hear from other Pinays that my work is too "painful" to read, or "too hard" to teach, and I interpret these statements as lines being drawn, the opposite of community.
Caught between her physical appearance and her racial identity as a mixed-race Pinay, Lynda must negotiate the double-edged sword of her whiteness and its significance within US racial formations.
There's another Pinay in the beauty contest.
I do think that my influences of growing up an American-born Pinay and reading mostly western narratives as a student and then being a child in a Filipino household where all the adults around me were oral storytellers has made me a hybrid of these worlds.
I have met many Pinays at writers' conferences that have said that it was the first time in their literary lives that they could see themselves in a work of literature when they read your book.