koyak

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Malay:

koyak

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adjective

  1. spoilt; broken; out of order; damaged

    2. I think Indonesia must be smiling now ... Because of this haze, all the Malaysian and Singaporean athletes might go to Jakarta with 'koyak' lungs ... !

    — 1997 September 16, Ernest Luis (quoting anyonymous). The New Paper, "They joke: It's a ploy to win the SEA Games". p.45

  2. lousy; poor

    3. They can see if they have problems matching the employers' expectations. For example, if their cooking skills are koyak ... they can find out how to do their job better ...

    — 2006 May 22, Valerie Law (quoting Yeo Guat Kwang). Today, "A 'refresher' boost". p.8

    The market is so koyak (bad). To do this now is to really get us at a bad time ...

    — 1998 January 21, Ang Wan May (quoting anyonymous). The Business Times, "SIA tightens screws on agents who backdate air tickets". p.2

  3. untidy; haphazard; shambolic; disorderly
  4. wrong
  5. finished; done for

    6. When his stock was valued at a huge figure, everybody said the PM's son sapu (sweep) everything. Now, he gets hit the worst, everybody says he is koyak (finished).

    — 1997 October 28, Ho Wah Foon (quoting Mokhzani Mahathir). The Straits Times, "Mahathir's son dismisses rumours of financing problems". p.57

  6. emotionally unstable; over-sensitive[1]

related:

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2016 November, Nathiqa Azira Utoh Joehann, Durah Jasmin Abu Din Nur Atiqah Rahim, and Farrah Diebaa Rashid Ali. Department of English for International Communication Kulliyyah of Languages and Management International Islamic University Malaysia. INVESTIGATING MAT REMPIT’S LINGUISTIC IDENTITY: ASSIGNING NEW MEANINGS TO STANDARD MALAY WORDS. IYSJL vol. 1, no. I