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suaku

suaku noun: someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.

Noun

suaku (plural suakus)

  1. (Singapore, informal) Someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.
    • The suaku (literally "mountain tortoise" and figuratively "country bumpkin") sports a beer belly, fake brand-name apparel and oil-slick hair.1986, “New Books”, in Asiaweek, volume 12, page 60

Adjective

suaku (comparative more suaku, superlative most suaku)

  1. (Singapore, informal) Uneducated; backward.
    • Ah Lian are not simply lowly educated, they also have supposedly 'pre-modern' or sua-ku (hill tortoise, metaphor for 'backward') modes of behaviour.2003, Beng Huat Chua, Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, →ISBN, page 88

Forms of suaku

Noun
pluralsuakus
Adjective
comparativemore suaku
superlativemost suaku

Origin of suaku

From Hokkien 山龜／山龟 (soaⁿ-ku, “mountain turtle”), from 山 (soaⁿ, “mountain”) + 龜／龟 (ku, “turtle”).

Questions about suaku

What does suaku mean?
Suaku means someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.
What part of speech is suaku?
Suaku can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of suaku?
The plural of suaku is suakus.

Words near suaku in the dictionary

  1. suaged
  2. suages
  3. suaging
  4. suahe
  5. Suakin
  6. suaku
  7. suakus
  8. Sual
  9. Sually
  10. Sualocin
  11. suan-pan

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