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Meaning of lokun | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ləʊˈkʊn

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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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