I know 'spec' is used for 'specification' or 'technical details' about a producs, but this something else I guess..

When talking about a girl the woman asked me 'no spec ?'

I said 'huh ?'

If you were in a pub perhaps she was asking why you didt want the SPECIAL?

If you were in a pub perhaps she was asking why you didt want the SPECIAL?

I never go to pubs (all those farangs) but if you really wanna know it was the owner of the local dogfood shop.

She meant didn't the girl match your specifications of an attractive girl, ie was she not your sort of girl.

She meant didn't the girl match your specifications of an attractive girl, ie was she not your sort of girl.

Hahahihihurrrrp..... indeed I opted for another model

spec = specifications... height, hair, eyes, cuteness factor, bitchy factor, etc... basically your ideal...

no spec.. no glasses ?

I believe it is indeed contemporary thai slang (i.e.: spoken by people usually under 30 y/o). Actually nothing more than the shortening of the english word "specification" into a thai word; although it's pronounced more like 'sa-bek' than the word spec would be pronounced in engrish. In the context you refer to it denotes someone who is your style, or matches a set of criteria you have when gauging attractiveness and/or compatibility in the opposite sex (or same sex, if that's your penchant ).

While I have heard it used mostly by 'time-share' or 'rent-2-own' gurls and their clientele in the nefarious nite life districts; in talking to my thai language teachers (uni-girls in their mid to late 20's) they said it is now a quite commonly used term.

It may be spelled like this สเปก, as it turned up quite a few hits using Google Thailand. The first hit I got was this sentence; คำถามทายใจ ถอดรหัสสเปกคนพิเศษ, which I think says something along the lines of ; "A question to predict the heart and decipher the spec of a special person".

FWIW; it was on this website; http://happy.teenee.com/quiz/flashquiz/54

That would certainly lend credence to my thai teachers’ assertions that it is wide spread in usage with younger thais when used in the context the O/P posted about; although most of the Google hits were about specifications of P/C's, gaming platforms, and other electronic devices. Quite surprising, NONE of the hits mentioned dog food. ..

In the usual context it's used i've just taken เสเปกอยู่อะไร (spec yoo arai) as a teenage/colloquial way of saying คุณชอบผู้หญิงแบบไหน - koon chawp poo ying baeb nai. 'Those' kind of girls do use it a lot, you can motion to a 60 year old fat falang and just say 'sabek' to get a laugh.