Do You Use A Thai Nickname ?

[Rsquared]

Whenever I'm in the city at a bar, I introduce myself as "John"......meaning poor. Don't like to use my real name.

[barrybankruad]

I feel sorry for any Frenchman here called Jean Claude

[chrisinth]

_{Some ladies call me ham yai,but for the life of me i havent a clue what they are talking about?????}

Using small text in your post doesn't make it any bigger you know.......................

[loong]

_{Some ladies call me ham yai,but for the life of me i havent a clue what they are talking about?????}

I always think it rather strange when people call tall people "Shorty" and short people "Lofty"

[JemJem]

When visiting tourist locales, I quite often am given the nickname "you you".

Gosh, that used to annoy the hell out of me (but I tried not to show that I was annoyed). Nowadays, I still get annoyed when I hear that but much less than I was before.

[MrWorldwide]

One of the gals on Cowboy openly referred to me as 'ATM', despite the fact that she was one of very few in that bar who knew my name. When I returned to Oz after 3 months, I gave the phone to my then GF, and she handed it on to her elderly father. Predictably, he got a call from my Cowboy associate, a woman so single-minded in her quest that she simply launched into 'ATM ! Where are you ??' in English as soon as dear old dad answered the phone.

I know - 'cool story, bro' - but I laughed long and hard every time Ms Psycho-Ex trotted that tale out as an example of my evil ways and the persistence of this particular lady. Not sure that I would have mentioned it personally, but she was 'special'

[arthurwait]

Most foreign males are unaware that their names are already female nicknames such as Jim or Tim. Perhaps this is why the ladyboys get confused when rebuffed by the visiting Jims and Tims?

I doubt any Thai has the nickname 'Jim', as that means vagina in Thai.

Uhh sorry, but no; จิ๋ม - a common Thai female nickname

I'l go through the logic of my statement again;

If a foreign male has a name that is associated witha female nickname, then it might cause confusion with a Thai unfamiliar with western names.

The same thinh happens with foreigners when they read Thai names. For example, there the BangSue station. In Patong, there is Dr. Pornsack's clinic. To the untrained foreigner it is gigglicious. However, if pronounced as it is written in Thai, it is pahnnsock, sort of amusing but not as naughty as the other pronounciation.

Jim is vulgar slang for vagina. That is why bargirls all go in to hysterics when they meet a guy named Jim, not because it is a female nickname.

http://www.thai-lang...ng.../id/141754

I realize it says it's also a female nickname as the second definition, but I don't think it's that common anymore and definition one is what people think of and why they laugh at foreign Jims. I don't think I've ever met a girl who says her name is Jim, better to use something that doesn't cause constant giggles everywhere

I thought it was one of the more polite words.

[BKS22]

ATM

[diddums]

Some thai friends call me 'prik'....cos I like chili a lot....but I don't like it so much.

[MrWorldwide]

I thought the term you are describing sounded a lot more like 'chim-chim' than the way a native English speaker would pronounce 'Jim', but I guess boredom and 8 years of formal education may have a lot to do with the girls considering the latter to be a comical name. Given that the common Thai nickname 'Porn' is usually accepted as nothing more than a name by most Farang after their first trip to Thailand, it seems odd that the girls would find 'Jim' particularly funny when they realise how common that name is outside Thailand. I'm told that its katoeys who specialise in vulgar terms for female genitalia, and the girls don't appreciate it, I have a few choice terms for katoeys, but that's a topic for another thread.

[FWIW]

Most foreign males are unaware that their names are already female nicknames such as Jim or Tim. Perhaps this is why the ladyboys get confused when rebuffed by the visiting Jims and Tims?

I doubt any Thai has the nickname 'Jim', as that means vagina in Thai.

the guy next door to me his thai wifes called JIM and her farthers the village headman ...... just wait untill i see her latter

to say i know what her name means ....

Jim is slang for little girls' vagina, it's real meaning is small, tiny, little.

Be careful what you say to your neighbour. She may wonder why you are so interested in little girls' vaginas

I will be happy to be corrected - but my understanding is that its more of a word a little girl would use rather than a more clinical or more vulger term. Jim and Joo (the male equivalent) are "safe" words for kids to use when describing that part of their anatomy. Adult females being "cutsey" might also use the terms...

[David48]

Some thai friends call me 'prik'....cos I like chili a lot....but I don't like it so much.

Isn't that a silent 'r' ... or a regional variation?

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[arthurwait]

Some thai friends call me 'prik'....cos I like chili a lot....but I don't like it so much.

Isn't that a silent 'r' ... or a regional variation?

.

I don't think it's a regional variation in dropping the r. As usual it's just plain laziness or very poor education.

Edited February 10, 2013 by arthurwait

[arthurwait]

bee for kids

jim more grown up but polite

hoy is rudish slang.

and of course h** very rude is my understanding.

[loong]

I will be happy to be corrected - but my understanding is that its more of a word a little girl would use rather than a more clinical or more vulger term. Jim and Joo (the male equivalent) are "safe" words for kids to use when describing that part of their anatomy. Adult females being "cutsey" might also use the terms...

You're probably right, to be honest, it's a word that I am aware of, but do not use.

When I have heard little children refer to their vaginas, it is usually i-pee ( i not sounding like the i in bite, but the i in bit)

Not sure whether this is Thai or Isaan dialect.

Joom Jim is also cutesy word for children's vagina.

Jim Joom is Isaan dialect for Suki

So if you want to eat Suki, make absolutely sure that you get it the right way round.

Thai language is a minefield at times. So many words have second sexual slang meanings.

[Thaddeus]

When I have heard little children refer to their vaginas, it is usually i-pee ( i not sounding like the i in bite, but the i in bit)

Aha..... that explains the line.....

"For goodness sakes, I got the i-pee i-pee shakes"

[wildorchid]

my husband his thai name CHANGNOI mean small elephant

[TommoPhysicist]

my husband his thai name CHANGNOI mean small elephant

I thought 'changnoi' was a Thai euphemism for 'large penis'

[loong]

my husband his thai name CHANGNOI mean small elephant

I thought 'changnoi' was a Thai euphemism for 'large penis'

From what another4 poster said in another topic. It means "small penis"

But then again a small penis compared to an elephant's

[melvinmelvin]

bee for kids

jim more grown up but polite

hoy is rudish slang.

and of course h** very rude is my understanding.

that also matches my understanding

but these ladies with nick name JIM, how is that name JIM pronounced, tonewise?

you have JIM (body part)

you have JIM (as in naam jim) pronounced different from body part

maybe other JIMs as well,

so, pronounciation is somewhat important.

[JemJem]

Isn't the slang word 'jim' that you folks are referring to said with a rising tone ?

[melvinmelvin]

dunno, can't speak Thai,

but I thought that it was the food jim (naam jim) that was rising

and body part low or medium tone

[katana]

Most foreign males are unaware that their names are already female nicknames such as Jim or Tim. Perhaps this is why the ladyboys get confused when rebuffed by the visiting Jims and Tims?

I doubt any Thai has the nickname 'Jim', as that means vagina in Thai.

Uhh sorry, but no; จิ๋ม - a common Thai female nickname

I'l go through the logic of my statement again;

If a foreign male has a name that is associated witha female nickname, then it might cause confusion with a Thai unfamiliar with western names.

The same thinh happens with foreigners when they read Thai names. For example, there the BangSue station. In Patong, there is Dr. Pornsack's clinic. To the untrained foreigner it is gigglicious. However, if pronounced as it is written in Thai, it is pahnnsock, sort of amusing but not as naughty as the other pronounciation.

Jim is vulgar slang for vagina. That is why bargirls all go in to hysterics when they meet a guy named Jim, not because it is a female nickname.

http://www.thai-lang...ng.../id/141754

I realize it says it's also a female nickname as the second definition, but I don't think it's that common anymore and definition one is what people think of and why they laugh at foreign Jims. I don't think I've ever met a girl who says her name is Jim, better to use something that doesn't cause constant giggles everywhere

I've got a Thai friend called จิ๋ม (rising tone) in her 40s. But as you say, apparently it's not that common any more, maybe because of its other meaning.

[loong]

Isn't the slang word 'jim' that you folks are referring to said with a rising tone ?

Yes, same as the nickname

http://www.thai-language.com/id/141754

[JemJem]

Isn't the slang word 'jim' that you folks are referring to said with a rising tone ?

Yes, same as the nickname

http://www.thai-language.com/id/141754

Thanks.

Yes, I have also heard of this word used as a nickname but it is quite rare, I think.