tetek bengek
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay tetek bengek, from Betawi tetek-bengek, from Javanese tetek bengek.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: te‧tek‧be‧ngek
Noun edit
- small or unimportant matters.
Further reading edit
- “tetek bengek” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.