จิกกัด
needle someone with sarcastic remarks
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- 1 needle someone with sarcastic remarks、make cutting remarks about someone、take sarcastic digs at someone
This word usually describes repeatedly needling someone with sarcastic, cutting, or indirectly hostile remarks. It can also literally refer to animals pecking or biting.
needle someone with sarcastic remarks、make cutting remarks about someone、take sarcastic digs at someone
To needle or attack someone through sarcastic, cutting, or indirectly hostile remarks.
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เขาชอบพูดจิกกัดคนอื่น khǎw chɔ̂ɔp phûut cìkkàt khon ʉ̀ʉn He likes making cutting remarks about other people. เขาชอบพูดจิกกัดคนอื่น details
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ทั้งสองฝ่ายจิกกัดกันผ่านโซเชียลมีเดีย tháŋ sɔ̌ɔŋ fàay cìkkàt kan phàan soochian míidia The two sides traded sarcastic digs on social media. ทั้งสองฝ่ายจิกกัดกันผ่านโซเชียลมีเดีย details
Learning notes
Explanation
จิกกัด combines จิก “to peck” and กัด “to bite.” The literal image of an animal making repeated small attacks has developed into the common figurative sense of needling someone with sarcasm, insinuations, or cutting remarks. It usually suggests some hostility and is stronger than harmless teasing. Common patterns include จิกกัดคนอื่น “make cutting remarks about others,” พูดจิกกัด “speak sarcastically,” จิกกัดกัน “trade sarcastic digs,” and คำพูดจิกกัด “cutting remarks.”
Usage
It is common in conversations, news, entertainment coverage, and social media when people repeatedly target one another with sarcastic or cutting remarks. It is often used for feuding celebrities, politicians, rivals, or coworkers. In its literal sense, it describes animals—particularly chickens or other birds—pecking, biting, or attacking one another.
Caution
The figurative sense carries a critical or hostile tone, so it should not automatically be understood as friendly teasing. Even when it follows a noun in phrases such as คำพูดจิกกัด “cutting remarks,” its core grammatical use is verbal.
Differences from similar words
1 needle someone with sarcastic remarks synonyms
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ประชด often means using irony, such as saying the opposite of what one means. จิกกัด focuses more broadly on using cutting remarks to attack or needle someone.
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เหน็บแนม emphasizes indirect, insinuating remarks. จิกกัด puts more emphasis on repeatedly needling or attacking the target.
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แซะ is a newer, more colloquial term often used online for throwing shade or picking at someone. จิกกัด is less slangy and also appears in news and other general writing.