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Tagalog13 Oct 2026feelings

tampo

tam-POH[tɐmˈpo]

quiet, hurt withdrawal, held until somebody comes to coax you out of it

Closest in English: sulk, sulking, sulky. None of them covers it.

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Tampo happens without a raised voice: you go quiet, sit slightly apart and wait to be noticed. Filipino has a word for the cure too, lambing, the coaxing that brings you round. English gets as far as the sulk, which nobody performs with such patience.

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  1. Which language is it from?Tagalog
  2. Which feeling does it carry?Hurt, and waiting to be noticed
  3. Where would you hear it?A birthday call that never came
  4. What does it mean?Going quiet so somebody asks why

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