châm chước
(verb) to forgive; to pardon (a person)
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(verb) to forgive; to pardon (a person)
(adjective) slow; gradual; sluggish
A basin, washbowl — the Northern word; Southerners say thau.
(verb) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chống, báng.
(noun) skunk
(noun) mink
(noun) whale
Fried rice.
(noun) Colocasia gigantea
trellis
(noun) a heel (the posterior round of the foot)
(verb) to lose; to suffer losses
(noun) mailbox
(noun) musk deer
(adjective) old-fashioned, narrow-minded
(verb) alternative spelling of hủ hoá
(noun) a fudanshi
(noun) a fujoshi
(adjective) very stingy
(verb) to burst into loud wailing
(verb) to oppose; to fight; to struggle
(noun) a great-great-grandparent
(adjective) hydrophobic (lacking an affinity for water)
(noun) a horseman; cavalryman
Lazy — the Southern word; Northerners say lười.
(noun) an inundation
(verb) to abrade; to scrape
(noun) metro; subway
(noun) alternative form of người Tàu (“Chinese”)
(verb) to doze off
(verb) to turn over (continuously); to make loops; to turn a somersault
jazz
(adjective) tired, tiresome
(noun) abbreviation of Nghị định-Chính phủ (“government decree”)
(adjective) frustrated; indignant; aggrieved
(noun) cold snap in the second month of a lunar year
(noun) Strelitzia; bird of paradise plant
(noun) fishing boat (with cast net)
(verb) to sterilise
(noun) nuthatch
bass drum
(verb) to rebound
(adjective) boring, lame, dull
(verb) to come from many places to gather without anyone lacking
(noun) Alternative spelling of tì hưu.
(noun) microvillus
(noun) jacket
(noun) a mango; the sweet golden tropical fruit
(verb) to cancel; to cross out
(noun) vomer
(noun) an edible bird's nest
dressing gown; robe
(noun) short for gái điếm (“prostitute”)
(noun) a great taboo (especially in feng shui)
(adjective) purple; wine-colored; claret
(noun) AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
(verb) to roll (on wheels)
to sprain one’s ankle
(noun) popcorn
(noun) a reveted embankment located by a stream or body of water, especially one where people can rest and hang out