lokun

alternative lo-kun · alternative lo kun · alternative lo-koon · alternative lor kun

1. MalaysiaSingaporecolloquialinformaldoctor; physician

   Anything more than SGD$30, they would complain: “Wah, this lo kun (doctor) jing qwee (very expensive)!”

   2012 October 31, Chang Mei Bin, “The Testimony of the Late Dr Richard Teo, the Singaporean Millionaire Plastic Surgeon”, in SacredHeart1984 (Usenet)

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   What they say about the doctors, generalist and the specialist: […] The specialist(aka tua lokun) knows more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

   2006 October 30, kaupehkaubu, “Malaysia A Police State? Is Mahathir Serious?”, in Sangkancil (Usenet)

   The lo-kun stared steadily at the computer screen, his finger still, uncertain what to do, unable to understand if some tragic meaning lay behind that long coughing fit.

   2015, Gwee Li Sui, Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers