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...
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.
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
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.