Asiental

Asiental
 adj.β€” Β«I brought Tiger Balm to school for show and tell. I didn’t know exactly what it was for but that it looked all asiental and so I thought people would think it was cool. So I passed it around and told everyone to put it under their eyes because Tiger Balm was what made Chinese people so good at math and the violin. They believed me.Β» β€”β€œMaking No Friends in Fourth Grade” by Jin in Iowa City, Iowa A Discontent Malcontent (Seattle, Wash.) Mar. 3, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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