Meanings
alternative suka suka
- Singlishnot comparableAs one pleases, whenever, on a whim; freely and without regard for future consequences.
“It’s government-owned land, you know. […] If everyone is like him, suka suka go and claim land for themselves, can you imagine what will happen?”
2023, Agnes Chew, Eternal Summer of My Homeland, Epigram Books, →ISBN, page 291 more example
Once you stand for elections, you must then be ready to serve if you are called upon as an NCMP. You cannot just have a myopic view of being "a duckweed in a pond that cannot sink roots" and not give the NCMP position any dignity and "suka-suka" swap candidates.
2016 January 29, Zaqy Mohamad, “Debate on President's Address”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 94
Origin
- Malaysesuka-suka“at one's leisure”
- Malaysuka“to like”
- Englishsuka-suka
PIE root *h₁es- Reduplication of Malay suka (“to like”), or directly from Malay sesuka-suka (“at one's leisure”).
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