Meanings
verblao sai (invariable)
- SingaporeSinglishcolloquialintransitiveinvariableTo have diarrhoea.
It is like going to a place with no 'jamban' [toilet] but you have to 'lao sai'.
2012, Oolong Cha, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)1 more example
But they have no track record! […] How you know their food is clean or not? Wait you eat already lao sai eh?
2012, Alfian Sa'at, “The Stall Next Door”, in Cooling-Off Day, Singapore: Ethos Books, →ISBN, page 96
nounlao sai (uncountable)
- SingaporeSinglishcolloquialuncountableDiarrhoea.
Origin
- Hokkien落屎
- Englishlao sai
From Hokkien 落屎 (làu-sái).
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APA
lao sai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lao%20sai
MLA
“lao sai.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lao%20sai. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lao sai,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lao%20sai.
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