Used in Singapore to refer to a Hakka person, the Hakka dialect, or things associated with the Hakka Chinese community.
Used in Singapore to refer to a Hakka person, the Hakka dialect, or things associated with the Hakka Chinese community. The Hakka are a Han Chinese subgroup whose diaspora spread widely across Southeast Asia. In Singapore the term is used matter-of-factly within the community and is not typically a slur. Heard most often in older-generation conversations or when discussing dialect-group heritage.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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Singaporean Hokkien-influenced slang meaning frustrated, exasperated, or fed up — the feeling of being at the end of one's patience with a situation or person. It is widely used in Singapore colloquial English (Singlish) and is broadly understood across ethnic communities in Singapore.
(slang, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) A laborer who has recently arrived from China.
Her grandmother only spoke Khek at home, so she grew up understanding the dialect even if she could not speak it fluently.
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(Singapore) a Hakka person.
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(Singapore) the Hakka dialect.
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(Singapore) Hakka.
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