From Malay karung guni (“gunny sack”); guni is derived from Sanskrit गोणी (goṇī). Doublet of gunny.
karung guni (plural karung guni or karung gunis)
- (Singapore, Malaysia, metonymically or attributively) A traditional scrap dealer or rag-and-bone man who visits residential zones to collect unwanted items.
2004 November 8, Andrew Wood, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 16:The karung guni uncle below my block has been asked to move … By the very people he was making life easy for.
karung guni,報紙,舊衫褲,歹le-lio,電視機 [Hokkien, trad.]
karung guni,报纸,旧衫裤,歹le-lio,电视机 [Hokkien, simp.]- From: 2022, [1]
- karung guni, pò-chóa, kū saⁿ-khò͘, pháiⁿ le-lio, tiān-sī-ki [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- karung guni, newspapers, old clothes, broken radios, TV sets