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Q: What is a 'Tim' ?
Dear reader,
I have noticed various expat websites, blogs and pages referring to certain people as 'Tim' or as 'Tims'
It's in the negative context. I'm young, free and innocent, can you explain to me?
Regards,
Mr Sausage
What / who is Tim Budong?
Tim Budong is a play on the Chinese phrase ting bu dong, which translates to "I don't understand". Hence, a Tim Budong is a clueless, FOB (read: fresh off the boat) foreigner. The female version of a Tim is called a Tina Budong.
Find the whole 'need-to-know' jargon here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2/comments/3c346y/the_official_ccj2_faq_2015...
Do Enjoy!
What / who is Tim Budong?
Tim Budong is a play on the Chinese phrase ting bu dong, which translates to "I don't understand". Hence, a Tim Budong is a clueless, FOB (read: fresh off the boat) foreigner. The female version of a Tim is called a Tina Budong.
Find the whole 'need-to-know' jargon here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2/comments/3c346y/the_official_ccj2_faq_2015...
Do Enjoy!
I have no idea where or what context you have seen this but it is sometimes used as a derogatory term for Irish Catholics for example, Glasgow Rangers supporters use it as a slur when referring to Glasgow Celtic supporters (alternative to "Timmy").
Kaiwen:
Sure, if it relates to China, I am sure Sinobear's explanation will be more on the money than mine).
A Tim is simply a Celtic supporter, and is a regular self-referential term used by Celtic supporters.
The origin is thought to come from a Catholic gang from Calton in the early 1900's, which named itself the "Tim Malloys" supposedly after the leader of the gang.
Others say it was just rhyming slang for "Bhoys" and the name just stuck, as a counterpart to the Huns' referring to themselves as "The Billy Boys".
Some Huns will lazily (and mostly in a derogatory way) use the term Tim to apply to any Catholics. However it is purely used by fans of other clubs to simply mean a Celtic fan, and has increasingly little (if anything) to do with religion sympathies or descent at all.
The popularity of the term has meant that amongst the support, the word is adorned ubiquitously on scarves, t-shirts and other merchandise.
Across the web, it is also a common username prefix & postfix to pseudonyms and handles, and the term has been used for fanzine & book titles.
Perhaps this might help http://www.laowaicomics.com/image/98949002324
Sorry I couldn't get the pic to load into the answer
Tim, nice but dim.
it's from British comedy, so probably not the correct reference.
It can also refer to the character created by the UK comedian Harry Enfield. " Dim but nice Tim". A well connected upper crust stupid person who none the less is elevated to high corporate positions just because of what school he went to. Normally Eton or Harrow.
This comedy character has have course been superseded for comedic value by the real person called "call me Dave"
