Where does “กลั่นแกล้ง” come from?

กลั่นแกล้ง (Thai) comes from Thai กลั่น — to distill, extract.

กลั่นแกล้ง (Thai): to bully, to tease, to intimate; to make fun of, etc

Definitions

  1. to bully, to tease, to intimate; to make fun of, etc

Ancestry of “กลั่นแกล้ง”, step by step

กลั่นแกล้ง traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai กลั่น

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiกลั่นto distill, extract

via Thai แกล้ง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiแกล้งto subject to annoyance, trouble, vexation, or humiliation: to annoy, to trouble, to vex, to harass, to persecute, to bully, to tease, to make fun of, to prank, etc
Every word from Thai กลั่น