suaku

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noun

Someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.

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Meanings

nounsuaku (plural suakus)

plural suakus

  1. SingaporeinformalSomeone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.

    The suaku (literally "mountain tortoise" and figuratively "country bumpkin") sports a beer belly, fake brand-name apparel and oil-slick hair.

    1986, “New Books”, in Asiaweek, volume 12, page 60
adjectivesuaku (comparative more suaku, superlative most suaku)

comparative more suaku · superlative most suaku

  1. SingaporeinformalUneducated; backward.

    Ah Lian are not simply lowly educated, they also have supposedly 'pre-modern' or sua-ku (hill tortoise, metaphor for 'backward') modes of behaviour.

    2003, Beng Huat Chua, Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, →ISBN, page 88

Origin

From Hokkien 山龜／山龟 (soaⁿ-ku, “mountain turtle”), from 山 (soaⁿ, “mountain”) + 龜／龟 (ku, “turtle”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

AUKUS
Cite this entry
APA

suaku. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suaku

MLA

“suaku.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suaku. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suaku,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suaku.

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