Meaning of lokun | Babel Free

Definitions

doctor; physician

Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, informal

Examples

“What they say about the doctors, generalist and the specialist: […] The specialist(aka tua lokun) knows more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing.”

“Anything more than SGD$30, they would complain: “Wah, this lo kun (doctor) jing qwee (very expensive)!””

“The lo-kun stared steadily at the computer screen, his finger still, uncertain what to do, unable to understand if some tragic meaning lay behind that long coughing fit.”

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