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lau kui

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Singapore[ˈlaʊ˦˨ ˌkʰui˩]

lau kui adjective: embarrassing, shameful.

Adjective

lau kui (comparative more lau kui, superlative most lau kui)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) Embarrassing, shameful
    • You think you are going for a vacation izzit? No wonder our athletes thought like this and we lost miserably. So lau kui.2004, Bukit Ho Sweerean, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)

Forms of lau kui

comparativemore lau kui
superlativemost lau kui

Origin of lau kui

Borrowed from Hokkien 落氣 /落气 (làu-khùi, “to lose face”).

Questions about lau kui

What does lau kui mean?
Lau kui means embarrassing, shameful.
What part of speech is lau kui?
Lau kui is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lau kui?
Lau kui is pronounced [ˈlaʊ˦˨ ˌkʰui˩] (Singapore).

Words near lau kui in the dictionary

  1. Latvianness
  2. Latvians
  3. Latz
  4. Latzes
  5. lau
  6. lau kui
  7. lau yah
  8. Laua-an
  9. lauan
  10. lauans
  11. Laubach

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