con đĩ đánh bồng
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Meaning · English
A person with bad habits or behavior influencing others
Literally: prostitute's child hits the cradle
Examples
Cô ấy sợ con đĩ đánh bồng, nên không cho con mình chơi với bạn xấuShe was afraid of con đĩ đánh bồng, so she didn't let her child play with bad friends
AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)
Sources & notes
Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-08-01; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “con đĩ đánh bồng” mean?
A person with bad habits or behavior influencing others Literally: prostitute's child hits the cradle
Is “con đĩ đánh bồng” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.