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    Pin Pin de Sarapin Is A Fingerplay Song and Chant From Capiz. It Is A Counting-Out Game Were A

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    Pin pin de sarapin is a finger counting game from Capiz, Philippines where one player touches and bends the fingers of another while chanting nonsense words, repeating until only one finger remains unbent. The chant consists of made-up words like "pinpin", "de", and "sarapin" as well as references to objects like knives, warehouses, carabaos, and mythical creatures, but all are nonsensical since it is a children's game.

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    Pin Pin de Sarapin Is A Fingerplay Song and Chant From Capiz. It Is A Counting-Out Game Were A

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    Pin pin de sarapin is a finger counting game from Capiz, Philippines where one player touches and bends the fingers of another while chanting nonsense words, repeating until only one finger remains unbent. The chant consists of made-up words like "pinpin", "de", and "sarapin" as well as references to objects like knives, warehouses, carabaos, and mythical creatures, but all are nonsensical since it is a children's game.

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    Pin pin de sarapin is a finger counting game from Capiz, Philippines where one player touches and bends the fingers of another while chanting nonsense words, repeating until only one finger remains unbent. The chant consists of made-up words like "pinpin", "de", and "sarapin" as well as references to objects like knives, warehouses, carabaos, and mythical creatures, but all are nonsensical since it is a children's game.

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    Pin Pin de Sarapin Is A Fingerplay Song and Chant From Capiz. It Is A Counting-Out Game Were A

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    Pin pin de sarapin is a finger counting game from Capiz, Philippines where one player touches and bends the fingers of another while chanting nonsense words, repeating until only one finger remains unbent. The chant consists of made-up words like "pinpin", "de", and "sarapin" as well as references to objects like knives, warehouses, carabaos, and mythical creatures, but all are nonsensical since it is a children's game.

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    P1506 PIN PIN DE SARAPIN

    Pin pin de sarapin is a fingerplay song and chant from Capiz. It is a counting-out game were a
    player touches one finger after another of the other players and bends the finger on which he
    lands at the end of the chant. The series of action is repeated until only one finger of a player
    remains unbent.

    Since this is a children's game, the words are all nonsensical.

    pinpin = no literal meaning


    de = the/with
    sarapin = no literal meaning
    kutsilyo = knife
    almasin = warehouse
    haw-haw = no literal meaning
    karabaw = (carabao) water buffalo
    batutin = smelly
    sayang = skirt
    pula = red(color)
    tatlong = three
    pera = money
    puti = white(color)
    ka = a
    salapi = fifty-centavo coin
    tigbak = put away
    buang = crazy
    binuno = stabbed
    aswang = mythical (creature witch/vampire-like)

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