jialat
/ˌt͡s˭jɑːˈlʌt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Terrible, disastrous; (of a person) affected by difficulties, in a dire situation.
Example Sentences
- "wah lao...... jialat ahhhh you."
- "None of the economists polled expect the economy to contract - be it a technical recession or a real recession - and hit the alamak and jialat ranges."
- "Jialat, jialat (very serious). This one jialat. Tell me about it man. Did you use it?"
- "According to his doctors, every minute he had remained unconscious would have added to his life being in danger. "If it were 10 minutes... jialat (terrible)!" he said."
- "Seeing my Dad in that state was a huge shock. I was like ‘eh what the fuck! What’s wrong with you?!’ […] ‘Lucky I didn’t die, boy!’ he told me. Jialat sia."
Etymology
Borrowed from Hokkien 食力 (chia̍h-la̍t, “to be exhausting”), with spelling influenced by Mandarin Pinyin.
Word Breakdown
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