Who started the term Punter?

[BKKanalist]

I am really curious about this. The first time I ever heard it in reference to p4p was in Trinks columns for many years.

 

Is this a term unique to the Thai scene?

 

Did you first hear this in Thailand? Or did Trink get this someplace else?

 

 

[Nervous_Dog]

It's a Brit term I thought, heard it in Aus long before I came to thailand,

[The_Munchmaster]

It's a British term and means customer.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

"The word punter may refer to:

 

Someone who uses a Punt (boat).

 

Punter (American football), a position in American or Canadian football.

 

The Punters, a traditional Newfoundland music group.

 

A player in the game of Baccarat.

 

Punter (protocol), a file-transfer protocol.

Ricky Ponting aka "Punter", Australian cricket legend.

 

Christopher Ponton aka "Punter", famous Canberra, Australia socialite, basketball coach. Died of overdose 5/12/2006.

 

In slang or colloquial use:

 

In British English, a customer of a business, the usage being primarily found in London and Essex.

 

In both British and Australian English, a gambler, particularly an amateur betting on horse racing.

 

Punter also means a "dude" in Hindi. For example "Punter hai re ekdum", meaning "He is a cool dude".

 

A beginner skier or snowboarder or one with particularly bad style."

 

[wonderlust]

It's a very common British term for the customer of a whore. The UK's leading p4p website is called PunterNet:

 

http://www.punternet.com/frs/fr_search.php

[MooNoi]

I think it's a great term.

 

Here in Oz, it can mean a client of a hooker, someone going out for an evening's entertainment, or a gambler.

 

When you're a punter in the gambling sense, you spending money in order to get a win.

 

Same as when you go out of an evening - you're spending money in the hope you have a good time. Sometimes you "win"... sometimes you "lose".

 

Therefore, you're a punter.

[bust]

Also the nickname of the Australian Cricket Captain

[Torneyboy]

A gambler is how i know it...

[Ongchaiyai]

Punter

 

In gentlemen's language, someone who invests money in a chancey game or business in the expectation of making a profit. Most punters bet on horses, which run races at a predictable pace and have an assessable chance of winning. Others test their intuition in the sharemarket or more esoteric branches of the investment field. The odds in favour of winning are roughly the same. A racetrack punter's results are as good as his information. In the financial markets, too, the successful punter is the well-informed one.

 

[Julian2]

To me it was always gambling, "I'm gonna have a bit of a punt this weekend".

Now it seems to apply to any investor, whether it be in ladies of the night... and isn't that always a gamble?... or some other sort of slightly dodgy financial transaction.

 

[Nervous_Dog]

Gambling and drinking - gambling alpone wasn;t enough to be a "serious punter"