Suaku
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Suaku is a noun meaning (Singapore, informal) Someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.
Meaning
(Singapore, informal) Someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.
More Meanings
- (Singapore, informal) Uneducated; backward.
Example Sentences
The suaku (literally "mountain tortoise" and figuratively "country bumpkin") sports a beer belly, fake brand-name apparel and oil-slick hair.
Ah Lian are not simply lowly educated, they also have supposedly 'pre-modern' or sua-ku (hill tortoise, metaphor for 'backward') modes of behaviour.
Word Forms
- suakus
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include farmer, kiasu, bumpkin, goondu, provincial, galoot.
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