kucing kurap

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Malay:

kucing kurap

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adjective

  1. (metaphor, derogatory) unwanted; useless; worthless; looked down upon

    2. S-League is kucing kurap stuff, who wants to bet? The standard is so unpredictable ...

    — 1999 April 4, (quoting Ricky). The Straits Times, "We'll 'Keep our grip'". p.22

  2. (metaphor, derogatory) small; insignificant; unimportant

    3. Big shot comes here, it's a chance to impress him, curry favour, angle for promotion; and instead this kucing kurap NSF tells him that people in the NPC are childish horndogs? Like, seriously, anticlimax.

    synonyms:

    kuchi

noun

  1. (metaphor, derogatory) someone or something unwanted, useless, worthless, or looked down upon

    2. In our obsession with rowdy and mediocre students, we ignore our best and brightest. We pay too much attention to the kucing kurap (scruffy kittens) and not enough to our promising felines.

    — 2003, M. Bakri Musa. Seeing Malaysia My Way: Collection of Personal Essays. iUniverse. ISBN: 9780595303182. p.32

  2. (metaphor, derogatory) a nobody; an insignificant person

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