switchy
Versatile; not exclusively a top or a bottom, or inclined to switch between sadistic and masochistic roles.
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swivel
Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will.
swole
Swollen, enlarged.
swolemate
A fitness partner, especially those who are in a relationship with each other.
swoon set
Teenage girls.
swoonatra
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), American singer and actor.
swoose
A stupid person.
swooshtika
The swoosh logo of American athletic shoe and clothing manufacturer Nike, Inc.
sword fighting
The practice of crossing urine streams with another man while both urinating.
sword swallower
A person who performs oral sex on a man.
swot up on
To study particularly hard to learn (a subject) quickly.
swotty
Studious; being a swot; nerdy.
SwSh
Abbreviation of Pokémon Sword and Shield.
swy
A two-year prison sentence.
sybau
Acronym for "shut your bitch ass up"
syfm
Acronym for "shut your fucking mouth", originally a meme taken from a scene in the movie Bronson.
sylki
The ship of characters Loki and Sylvie from the television series Loki.
symbrock
The ship (romantic pairing) between Venom and Eddie Brock from Marvel.
sync up
To synchronize.
synth
A musical synthesizer.
syph
Clipping of syphilis.
syphed up
Afflicted with syphilis; syphilitic.
sysape
An incompetent sysop.
sa chân nhỡ bước
A slipped foot, a missed step — one stumble, and the path is a different one.
sa cơ lỡ vận
to fall into misfortune, especially with one's loss of asset
sai một ly, đi nghìn dặm
Off by a hair, astray by a thousand miles — precision's compound interest, in the negative.
sanh kí tử qui
Life is a lodging, death the return — we are clay on loan, homeward bound.
sanh sự sự sanh
Start trouble and trouble starts — incidents breed in whichever hand stirs them.
sanh thuận tử an
Live rightly, die peacefully — the calm death is prepaid by the decent life.
sanh tử bất sanh tâm, sanh ngưu vô sanh giác
Parents make the child, not its heart; the buffalo, not its horns — nature issues what nurture never ordered.
sao mau thì mưa, sao thưa thì nắng
Stars crowded, rain; stars sparse, sun — the night sky as almanac.
say tít cò bợ
Drunk as a spinning pond-heron — inebriation with its own axis.
se chỉ đào
Twisting the peach thread — tying the marriage knot, in the matchmaker's old phrase.
si lung ám á gia hào phú, trí huệ thông minh khước thọ bần
The dull and mute inherit mansions; the brilliant inherit poverty — providence balancing its books sideways.
sin lũi
Sorry — a deliberately cutesy respelling of "xin lỗi", used in texting to make an apology sound light and affectionate.
sinh nghề tử nghiêp
Close to the English saying: “Live by the sword, die by the sword. (the Bible)Mr. B.”.
sinh nhật bạn ngày nào?
When is your birthday?
sinh nhật vui vẻ
happy birthday
sinh sự, sự sinh
Close to the English saying: “Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”.
sinh voi sinh cỏ
Birth the elephant, and grass grows — providence scales to what it creates; children arrive with their provision.
sinh vô gia cư, tử vô địa táng
Born with no house to live in, dead with no ground to lie in — destitution's full biography in two clauses.
siêng ăn nhác làm
Keen to eat, slack to work — appetite without industry.
slay
Slay — borrowed English: to absolutely nail it; serving excellence with style.
sml
Vulgar “get wrecked / worked to the bone” — initialism of “sấp mặt l*”: face-down exhausted or utterly defeated.
sn
Texting shortcut for “sinh nhật” — birthday. “cmsn” = chúc mừng sinh nhật (happy birthday).
stt
Texting shortcut for “status” — a social-media post. “lên stt” = to post about it.
suy bụng ta ra bụng người
to project (to assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own)
suy cổ nghiệm kim
Weigh the old to test the new — history is the instrument the present is measured with.
suy kỉ cập nhơn
Measure yourself to measure others — your own wishes are the ruler for everyone's.
suy lạng tính đồng
Weighing by the tael, counting by the coin — scrupulousness down to the smallest unit.
suy ra
which implies that; which means that; it follows that; ⇒
sàng đầu kim tận, tráng sĩ vô nhan
Gold spent to the bed-head, the hero has no face left — generosity exhausted, standing goes with it.
sát nhứt miêu, cứu vạn thử
Kill one cat, save ten thousand mice — one hard stroke that spares a multitude.
sít rịt
Uncannily lucky or unlucky — a “secret”-tier coincidence (from English “secret”).
sóng ngã thuyền câu lướt dập
When the wave breaks the fishing boat, others' oars beat it under — misfortune invites the pile-on.
sôi hỏng bỏng không
The sticky rice failed and the puffed rice came to nothing — both attempts, one emptiness.
sôi máu
blood-boiling
sông dài cá lội biệt tăm, phải duyên chồng vợ ngàn năm cũng chờ. Ruộng ai thì nấy đắp bờ, duyên ai nấy gặp đừng chờ uổng công
The long river hides its fish from sight — but a fated match waits a thousand years; bank your own field, meet your own fate.
sông sâu có thể bắc cầu, lòng người nham hiểm biết đâu mà mò
A deep river can be bridged — but who fathoms a treacherous heart — engineering ends at the human interior.
sông sâu nước chảy đá mòn Của kia ăn hết, nghĩa còn ghi xương
Deep rivers flow and stone wears; feasts are eaten and gone, but kindness is carved in the bone.
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