I would just like to check if 'thoin' is a gaelic word meaning 'ass', I found it to be so on the internet as part of 'pog mo thoin', (excuse my gaelic)but you never know...
hmmm....does the word pogue (i.e., sailor slang for a cabin-boy, often a sexual toy of the captain) have any relation to this? There was an Irish folk-rock group called The Pogues whose first album was called Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.maxiogee said:Toin is Irish for 'backside'. Not just the rude interpretation but also the back+side of anything. There is an area in Dublin called Tonlegee which derives from the Irish Toin-le-gaoith back side to the wind. In the expression "póg mo thoin" the genitive case causes the 't' to be muted. The original word toin would be pronounced toyin, but the phrase is pronounced pogue muh hone.
I can't answer for the sailor slang at the moment - but the band "The Pogues" changed there name to that when the BBC stopped calling them by their original name, which was the full expression. They had been using it unabridged until some spoilsport told someone in authority what it meant!virtdave said:hmmm....does the word pogue (i.e., sailor slang for a cabin-boy, often a sexual toy of the captain) have any relation to this? There was an Irish folk-rock group called The Pogues whose first album was called Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.
maxiogee said:In the expression "póg mo thoin" the genitive case causes the 't' to bemuted. mutated
Lenition is the word for that sort of change.maxiogee said:Toin is Irish for 'backside'. Not just the rude interpretation but also the back+side of anything. There is an area in Dublin called Tonlegee which derives from the Irish Toin-le-gaoith back side to the wind. In the expression "póg mo thoin" the genitive case causes the 't' to be muted. The original word toin would be pronounced toyin, but the phrase is pronounced pogue muh hone.