leceh

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1. SingaporeSinglishTroublesome

   Thank you ah, Mabel. But I think now don’t need already lah, make you come all the way to Braddell so leceh.

   2014, Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure, Epigram Books, →ISBN

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   Some of the hawkers are not very cooperative. When it comes to paying the salary, they find it ‘leceh’ (troublesome).

   1978 October 4, Mohamed Shariff, The Straits Times, page 7

   [A friend] was puzzled as to why the [Central Provident Fund] Board with its marvellous computerised accounting facilities couldn’t design a less lecheh (convoluted, troublesome) way of dealing with savers who already have enough to take care of rainy flat-on-their-back days.

   1987 February 28, Tan Sai Siong, The Straits Times, page 21

   Synonyms: ma fan, lor sor, susah