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kiasis

kiasis is the plural of kiasi.

Meaning of kiasi

Noun

kiasi (plural kiasi or kiasis)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, derogatory, mildly) A kiasi person.
    • Apart from the kiasis and kiasus, there are also Singaporeans at the other end of the scale – the healthcare workers who put their lives at risk.2003 May 28, Frederick Lim, “Sars and the Singaporean: Crisis has brought out the best and the worst”, in Today, Singapore, page 22

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Questions about kiasis

What is kiasis the plural of?
Kiasis is the plural of kiasi.

Words near kiasis in the dictionary

  1. kiar
  2. Kiara
  3. KIAS
  4. kiasi
  5. kiasiness
  6. kiasis
  7. kiasu
  8. kiasuism
  9. kiasuness
  10. kiasus
  11. kiat-kiat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiasis (page history and authors); kiasi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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