(Singapore, informal) Someone who is uneducated; a country bumpkin.
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(Singapore, informal) Uneducated; 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.
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