A South Asian insult for someone utterly useless — a good-for-nothing who can't be relied on for anything. Nalayak cuts deep in cultures where family expectations and duty are core values; to call someone nalayak is to write them off as a disappointment. The word packs both frustration and exasperation into four syllables, and it's a staple of dramatic South Asian film dialogue delivered at peak volume.
His uncle slammed the table and yelled that he was a nalayak who had wasted every opportunity handed to him.
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(India) A worthless person; good-for-nothing.
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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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