shiok - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Borrowed from Malay syok (“pleasing; attractive”). Doublet of shoke. Cognate with Punjabi ਸ਼ੌਕ (śauk, “eagerness; hobby”).

shiok (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial)

  1. Delightful, pleasurable.
    • 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 51:
      Shiok Mike. Let's burn his house with this Mike.
    • 2014 June 23, Jonathan Lim, “17 Singlish words that offer so much more than their English equivalents”, in Mothership.SG‎[1], Mothership, archived from the original on 25 June 2014:
      Ecstasy? Delicious? Pleasurable? How about just Shiok.
    • 2016, John Chan, Singlish Notebook:
      Use condom? Then not shiok lah.
    • 2022 September 15, Dr Gwee Li Sui, The Leeter Spiaking Singlish Book 3: Loanwords, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN:
      "Women in Singapore are so beautiful", one contestant blur-blur announced. They are all so shiok!"