Tiếng Việt · Online slang 5

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Where will you be? Anywhere Hà Nội & the North Huế / Đà Nẵng & the Center Sài Gòn & the South Online slang Bắc ↔ Nam words

Internet-culture Vietnamese — forum, gaming, and social-media expressions.

vl

initialism of vãi lồn

Tiếng Việt Saying Attested Distinctive here

vx

Texting shortcut for “vẫn” — still. “vx ổn” = still fine.

Tiếng Việt Slang Attested Distinctive here

về bờ

Back to shore — climbing out of a losing position to break even at last; the swimmer’s metaphor every underwater investor lives by («còn hàng là còn hy vọng về bờ»).

Tiếng Việt Slang Attested Distinctive here

Back to the pig trough — every gain (or the whole windfall) evaporates and you are exactly where you began; from the fisherman’s-wife fairy tale, where greed returns the old woman to her broken trough.

Tiếng Việt Idiom Attested Distinctive here

vãi nho

Grape-flavored shock — a cutesy minced take on the «vãi …» exclamation family, swapping the crude tail for «nho» (grapes) so you can gasp in polite company.

Tiếng Việt Slang Candidate Distinctive here

Tiếng Việt · Online slang 5

vl

vx

về bờ

về máng lợn

vãi nho