English
koyok
Koyok comes from Malay koyok ‘quack medicine’.
- Malaymodernkoyok‘quack medicine’
- Englishearliest quotation 2011same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
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- Malaymodernkoyok‘quack medicine’
- Englishearliest quotation 2011same form
Earliest quotation: 2011, Ravi Philemon, Goh Meng Seng the koyok seller: “Whenever I meet Meng Seng, he is always trying…”
Every English word from Malay koyok
Today it means
noun A phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay koyok / koyok