suay

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 衰 (soe).[1][2]

Adjective

suay (comparative more suay, superlative most suay)

  1. (Singapore, Singlish, colloquial) unlucky, unfortunate
    • 2003 December 12, jay, “tolkien would turn over in his grave.......”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
      You want to seem like you've actually read all 3 books, but — damn suay — even The New Paper is too 'cheem' for you. Neh'mine!

References

  1. ^ Gwee, William Thian Hock (2006) A Baba Malay Dictionary: The First Comprehensive Compendium of Straits Chinese Terms and Expressions‎[1], Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 188
  2. ^ Lee, Jack Tsen-Ta (2002) “suay”, in A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English

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