Thai

Alternative forms

• เชี่ย ‎(chîia)

Adjective

เหี้ย • ‎(hîia) ‎(abstract noun ความเหี้ย)

1. (slang and vulgar) extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant.

Adverb

เหี้ย • ‎(hîia) ‎(abstract noun ความเหี้ย)

1. (slang and vulgar) extremely; very.
   • น่ารักเหี้ย‎

     nâa-rák hîia

     Fuckingly cute!

   • ร้อนเหี้ย ๆ‎

     rɔ́ɔn hîia hîia

     Hot as ****! (describing the weather)

2. (slang and vulgar) in an extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant manner.
3. (slang and vulgar) used as an intensifier.
   • ทำเหี้ยไรอยู่‎

     tam hîia rai yùu

     What the **** are you doing?

Interjection

เหี้ย • ‎(hîia)

1. (slang and vulgar) an exclamation of anger, contempt, disapproval, discontent, disgust, dismay, rejection, or surprise.

Noun

Asian water monitor

Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard

เหี้ย • ‎(hîia)

1. (zoology) Asian water monitor, a very large lizard, Varanus salvator (Laurenti), of the family Varanidae.
2. (slang, vulgar and offensive) anyone or anything considered to be extremely bad, despicable, low, unacceptable, or unpleasant.

Usage notes

• The lizard is sometimes confused with ตะกวด ‎(dtà-gùuat, “Bengal monitor; clouded monitor”).
• In the Thai translation of the King James Version (Leviticus 11:29, for example), the term is used to refer the Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard, which is known as "tortoise" in KJV, as "great lizard" in the English Standard Version, the New International Version, and the New Heart English Bible, as "large lizard" in the New Living Translation and the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and merely as "lizard" in the International Standard Version.

Synonyms

• (Definition 1): โคธา, ตัวเงินตัวทอง, แลน ‎(lɛɛn)

Derived terms

• ไข่เหี้ย