hi-so adj.— «Visitors to Khao San Road “are more hi-so now,” says Pattamon Yaidaeng, invoking the local term for “high society.”» —“A Hippie Haven Goes Upscale” by Newley Purnell in Bangkok, Thailand New York...
muscle Mary n.— «There is a weird naivety to Michael Barrymore. When he first came out he went out with what is known as a muscle Mary. “But I didn’t know that at the time. We went on holiday to Bangkok and he walked around with his...
agremo n.— «The agremo’ of our Ambassador in Bangkok came after 4 months of sending his name from Kathmandu. Now, that he has been recalled again in such a short time, one doesn’t know how long the Thais are going to take to accept...