I have just checked again my old Oxford dictionary and it was simply stated: bungalow n. one-storeyed house. That was it!
In Malaysia, the term had been 'mangled' beyond description: double-storey bungalow; 3-storey bungalow; semi-detached bungalow; and the list goes on, limited only by the advertisers' imagination.
I was reading today's The Star on Property Up North, and I saw the words 'Sky bungalows' as the title to the write-up on Lone Pine Group's project in Tanjung Bungah, Penang. Yes, you are right, they are going to have several bungalows on top of their high-rise building! I think that is stretching the word... a bit too far up!
Incidentally, we will be meeting up with a couple from Maastricht (friends of Cheng), in Penang tomorrow. Just wondering if we would be driving through Tanjung Bungah as part of our guided tour.
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