ห่วย

Thai

Etymology

From Teochew 壞／坏 (huai6, “bad; spoiled”).

Pronunciation
Orthographic/Phonemicห่วย
h ˋ w y
RomanizationPaiboonhùai
Royal Institutehuai
(standard) IPA(key)/hua̯j˨˩/(R)

Adjective

ห่วย • (hùai) (abstract noun ความห่วย)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive, of quality, performance, behaviour, ability, etc) poor; low; bad.

Derived terms
  • ห่วยแตก

Noun

ห่วย • (hùai)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) (ไอ้, อี~) useless or worthless person: good-for-nothing, no-good, etc.
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