งัด

Cognate with Lao ງັດ (ngat).

งัด • (ngát) (abstract noun การงัด)

1. to move, raise, or open by or as if by leverage: to lever, to prise, to jimmy, to crowbar, etc.
2. (slang, humorous) to pick a fight, to pick a quarrel; to fight, to quarrel.

   ทำบุญต้องเข้าวัด แต่ถ้าอยากต้องเข้าเมรุ

   tam-bun dtɔ̂ng kâo wát · dtɛ̀ɛ tâa yàak ngát dtɔ̂ng kâo meen

   [If you want to] make merit, [you]'ve to enter a monastery. But if [you] want to fight, [you'll] have to enter a mortuary.