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busuk

Pronunciation: /ˈbusuk/

“busuk” is a Malay word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. having a bad smell; smelly
  2. bad, immoral, evil

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *busuk (“decayed, rotten, putrid; stinking”). Cognate with Javanese bosok.

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