sok-sokan
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sok + -an with the base word reduplicated.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sok-sokan
- (colloquial, dialectal, especially Jakarta) pretentious
- Lu jangan sok-sokan bisa ngelawan gue!
- Don't pretend you can fight me!
- (literally, “Don't you be pretentious that you can fight me!”)
Further reading
[edit]- “sok-sokan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.