Pattaya

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Thai พัทยา (pát-tá-yaa).

Proper noun

Pattaya

  1. A resort city in Chonburi Province, Thailand.
    • 2017 February 16, Chris Baynes, “Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed ‘modern day Sodom and Gomorrah’ with highest number of prostitutes anywhere”, in Daily Mirror[1]:
      Pattaya has a reported 27,000 prostitutes, roughly one for every five people living permanently in the east-coast city that has been likened to a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.
    • 2019, Luke Williams, Down and Out in Paradise: East, West, Sex, Death, Echo, →ISBN:
      Pattaya transitioned from fishing village to open-air brothel. The western-style strip club married the Asian harem: the successful Titty Palace, Purring Pussy, Pussy Galore.

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