Someone you are supporting (even in part) financially isn't a gig. Could be a wife, a mistress, a BG, or just about anything else ... just not a gig.

I wouldn't consider someone I occasionally bought dinner and took for a day out as being supported by me.

They could have had dinner at home and watched Tv.

Short term lifestyle enhancement does not equal support IMHO.

duh ....

"If you are paying anything MORE than ..."

I'm not sure. A gik will not associate with you if there is no money involved.

Sorry Semper ... but you are not discussing a gik. Having a personal definition just doesn't mean anything in a social context. (In other words just because you would call it a gig doesn't mean that is what the relationship is, If you are paying anything more than the random dinner etc then it isn't a gig at all.

So what would you call her?

Someone you are supporting (even in part) financially isn't a gig. Could be a wife, a mistress, a BG, or just about anything else ... just not a gig.

If you have a wife, you could ask her about the difference between a gik and a mia noi.

Gik.

Correcting spelling of a transliteration? Petty. กิ๊ก = Gig sounds fare to me, and certainly not worth arguing about, or correcting somebody to just make them look ignorant..... and before you start to say that's how some transliterated dictionaries spell it, that's true, doesn't make them any more right than the poster...

As far as finding one or even using the word, IMHO and from experience, the word is most frequently used by farang tw*ts who pick up working girls, get their phone number, and try to bed them for free, or even worse, after service has been provided they are too cheap to pay, and think they have found themselves a Gig!

For Thai's themselves it's a rather different story, but still usually indicates that the user of the word is just a pretentious wally who is stringing along a few women at the same time, most of whom will be expecting it to lead somewhere.

When I lived in Pattaya four years ago there were three dancers at the Jade who had Falang Giks. That's what they called them. The rest of the dancers had Thai Giks. All of the girls referred to the men they were dating after work as Giks. The girls spent about 1,000,000 baht a year on the Giks. The money was spent for gold, clothes, cell phones, drugs and booze when they went out after work.

In the Karoke bars in the little town where I now live the girls have Thai Giks. That's what they call them and the girls pay the bills. One Thai Gik even got a chopper. Falang owns the bar and his wife manages it and her boyfriend is referred to by everyone as a Gik.

I know a young Falang (50%/50% Thai American) teacher who dates the principal of the school and she buys him gold and clothes and when they go out she pays.

I know another lady up North married to a German old guy and she has 9 Thai Giks. The locals tolerate it but think she is a bit much.

From my experience with Giks the lady is the one who pays.

If anyone posting on this forum has an honest relationship with wife or girlfriend you will be able to confirm this.

Why would a Thai man get a female Gik? Sex is free or at worst very economic. Why confine yourself to one woman?

I think Gik is mostly used by Thais to refer to a boyfriend of a female who pays the bills. If a man has a steady women not his wife it would be called a mia noi.