"kiasi" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Why are you so kiasi? You won't die from getting a small cut on the finger.",
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          "text": "If everyone dares to bungee jump, why can't you do the same? Are you kiasi or what?",
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          "ref": "1988 December 11, \"Pro Bono Puntero\" [pseudonym], “That $5 win minimum [letter]”, in The Straits Times, Singapore, page 35:",
          "text": "The kia-si/kia-su (\"afraid to die/afraid to lose\") attitude of the Totalisator Boards in Malaysia and Singapore is deplorable.",
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          "ref": "1991 April 7, Sandi Tan, “Face-to-face with the kiasu customer”, in The Straits Times, page 8:",
          "text": "When you are anxious to make the right travel arrangements, you sometimes cannot help but be inquisitive. For those in the travel business, these whines should be a common affair. But when does being \"inquisitive\" translate into \"irritating\", or \"anxious\" into \"kiasi\" […]",
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          "ref": "1994 September 14, “Promotion blown out of all proportion”, in The Straits Times, page 22:",
          "text": "Do not be alarmed if you have received this yellow cylinder which looks like a stick of dynamite and even had the word \"explosive\" on it. Last week, one \"kiasi\" fellow was so alarmed that he called the police […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2000, Leong Liew Geok, “Forever Singlish”, in Women without Men, Singapore: Times Books International, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "No lubang, so teruk. Kiasu cannot lose, / Kiasi cannot die; machiam machiam words / We also try. Proper English? So lecheh, / So correct, so actsy for what? […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2001 February 20, Carolyn Chew, “A different take on the Singaporean syndrome”, in Today, page 6:",
          "text": "Too often you hear about Singaporeans with the \"K syndrome\", meaning kiasu (afraid of losing out), kiasi (afraid of dying), kiabor (afraid of wife).",
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        "Unwilling to take a chance for fear that something bad or unfavourable will happen; cowardly."
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        "(Singapore, colloquial, mildly derogatory) Unwilling to take a chance for fear that something bad or unfavourable will happen; cowardly."
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          "text": "Apart from the kiasis and kiasus, there are also Singaporeans at the other end of the scale – the healthcare workers who put their lives at risk.",
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          "ref": "2006 July 5, Tan Chek Wee, “Debugging the kiasi, MC takers [letter]”, in Today, Singapore, page 18:",
          "text": "The kiasi (those afraid to die) who insist on seeing a doctor for the most minor complaint such as \"my baby sneezed this morning leh\".",
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          "text": "If everyone dares to bungee jump, why can't you do the same? Are you kiasi or what?",
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          "text": "The kia-si/kia-su (\"afraid to die/afraid to lose\") attitude of the Totalisator Boards in Malaysia and Singapore is deplorable.",
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          "text": "When you are anxious to make the right travel arrangements, you sometimes cannot help but be inquisitive. For those in the travel business, these whines should be a common affair. But when does being \"inquisitive\" translate into \"irritating\", or \"anxious\" into \"kiasi\" […]",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1994 September 14, “Promotion blown out of all proportion”, in The Straits Times, page 22:",
          "text": "Do not be alarmed if you have received this yellow cylinder which looks like a stick of dynamite and even had the word \"explosive\" on it. Last week, one \"kiasi\" fellow was so alarmed that he called the police […]",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2000, Leong Liew Geok, “Forever Singlish”, in Women without Men, Singapore: Times Books International, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "No lubang, so teruk. Kiasu cannot lose, / Kiasi cannot die; machiam machiam words / We also try. Proper English? So lecheh, / So correct, so actsy for what? […]",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2001 February 20, Carolyn Chew, “A different take on the Singaporean syndrome”, in Today, page 6:",
          "text": "Too often you hear about Singaporeans with the \"K syndrome\", meaning kiasu (afraid of losing out), kiasi (afraid of dying), kiabor (afraid of wife).",
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          "text": "The kiasi (those afraid to die) who insist on seeing a doctor for the most minor complaint such as \"my baby sneezed this morning leh\".",
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