DAP lawmakers have critised their colleague, Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng, for uttering crude remarks such as '"pondan" (queer) in the Dewan Rakyat.

Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching said the remarks which Lim uttered against Umno information chief Annuar Musa yesterday were uncalled for.

"When BN (MPs) use those words we will ask them to withdraw, so I texted Lip Eng yesterday and advised him to withdraw.

"I think to use that kind of words is improper, I think 'pondan', 'half jantan' (half a man), make me feel uncomfortable, (it is) gender insensitive and discriminative.

"It is improper for us to use these kind of words in daily life, what more in the Dewan Rakyat," she added when met in the Parliament lobby today.

Lip Eng launched into the vulgar diatribe yesterday when Annuar refused to let DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang interject and rebut the jibes made against him.

Besides “pondan”, Lip Eng also called Annuar "chicken s***".

He retracted the remarks in the House not long after reporters met Teo this morning.

Lip Eng's remarks also drew flak from DAP's Bukit Bintang MP Fong Kui Lun.

"I don't encourage the use of such words, I think (Lip Eng) should use more proper words," he said.

Fong, however, said that at the time of the incident, emotions may have been running high and Lip Eng was unable to contain them.

Annuar had jibed that Kit Siang's career in politics had surpassed that of infamous leaders such as Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe, and former Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos.