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Originally Posted by cotambear
the thai word that sounds like farang but really means `baboons ****`?
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I've heard this monkey's bum thing before but have personally placed it in the urban myth file...
The Thai word for bum is "gohn" (gon) but as you know most BGs come from the North East, where one Isaan word for bum sounds close to "dark"....normally in Thai the adjective comes after the noun...for example "baan yai" is "house big" meaning of course, a big house...so monkey bum would be "dark" (bum).(of).."ling (monkey)...darkling....whether the bar girls do use the term as a play on words piss-take or not has always been beyond my language skills...that said... "dtar" (eyes) ling (monkey)...is just as close and is the correct word structure for calling you "monkey eyes" whilst again all you hear is "Darling" with a Thai accent. IMO it's just not worth losing sleep over. It could be happening but we will never really know.
My real favorite is "Madam" or "Mar (dog) dam (black)...Will Madam be accompanying you sir?....is the black dog going to?

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