Pakak

A word that has been around for several years now but has yet been left undiscussed in this blog is pakak. I was a bit reluctant to use pakak as a discussion point because it is not a word but a kind of ejaculation like 'woah' or 'walau'. In essence, pakak is very much like a boorish cat-call. However, like most galeej words, it becomes more than just a cat call but an adjective to be used for anything that deserves a cat call.
On a side note, one of the reasons why so many of these words are being counted by me as words and not as expressions etc is that so many of them are written. There is something about being printed that makes a collection of letters that much closer to a word in a dictionary than anything else.