Sunday, January 29, 2006
**Forms of Shit**I was surfing the web for articles on Thai culture, and I came across an interesting word:
kee. It means "shit" and, according to the website which I found the word from, is not an impolite or obscene word as "shit" itself. Its use is not just for excrement (you know, like shit) but also waste or residue. Below is an excerpt from the useful (hehe) website:
"For instance, kee dta
("eye shit") refers to the particles of "sleep" in your eyes when you wake up in the morning; kee hoo
("ear shit") is ear wax; kee bu-ree
("cigarette shit") is cigarette ashes; kee peung
("bee shit") is beeswax and kee reuay
("saw shit") is sawdust. The word also appears in countless compound words that emphasize the abundance of particular qualities, such as kee len
("playful shit"), one who is very playful; kee mao
("drunken shit"), someone who likes to drink and get drunk; kee lerm
("forget shit"), a very forgetful person; kee aai
("shy shit"), a very bashful person; kee niow
("sticky shit"), one who is very stingy (stingy people hate to part with anything) and kee moh
("bragging shit"), a braggart."What a multipurpose word. I love the word "shit" more now.
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