Home › Words › K › koyokkoyok[ˈk˭ojoʔ]koyok means A phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.koyok is pronounced [ˈk˭ojoʔ].EtymologyBorrowed from Malay koyok (“quack medicine”), from Hakka 膏藥／膏药 (kò-yo̍k, “herbal plaster, medicated patch, poultice”).nounA phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.e.g.“Whenever I meet Meng Seng, he is always trying to sell me his koyok and recruit me into his Party.” — 2011 March 1, Ravi Philemon, “Goh Meng Seng the koyok seller”, in raviphilemon.net:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).