Definitions

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  • noun In Thailand, a male-to-female transgender person or person of a third gender, or an effeminate homosexual male.

Etymologies

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From Thai กะเทย.

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Examples

  • But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.”

    THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010

  • But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.”

    THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010

  • In Thailand, they are known as “kathoey” or “ladyboys.”

    Thailand Highschool Will Have Transgender Bathrooms 2008

  • One such known kathoey is former Muay Thai kickboxing champion Nong Toom.

    Thailand Highschool Will Have Transgender Bathrooms 2008

  • The contest is quite glamorous and highly-esteemed, but that is because Alcazar's itself is the most famous kathoey cabaret in Thailand.

    Boing Boing: April 18, 2004 - April 24, 2004 Archives 2004

  • The Thai word translated as "transvestite" or "shemale" is khatoey, also spelled katoey, kathoey and several other ways.

    Boing Boing: April 18, 2004 - April 24, 2004 Archives 2004

  • The home for the ladyboy or the kathoey as they are known in Thai.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • They instead tend to hover in the background or are served up as part of the local color, for example, the transsexuals known as kathoey.

    PopMatters Carmelo Militano 2010

  • Featuring two social outcasts as characters, Mai, a ladyboy Japanese kathoey who works as a hostess at some ladyboy pub and the unnamed hero, who recently got fired from his job due to a genetic disorder.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • Featuring two social outcasts as characters, Mai, a ladyboy Japanese kathoey who works as a hostess at some ladyboy pub and the unnamed hero, who recently got fired from his job due to a genetic disorder.

    Anime Nano! 2009

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