ba rọi

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ba rọi

Mẹ mua một miếng ba rọi để nướng cho bữa tối.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • Pork belly: A specific cut of pork meat from the side or belly of a pig, characterized by distinct alternating layers of lean meat and fat.
    • Pidgin / Broken language: A simplified, mixed, or non-standard form of a language, often considered crude or humorous.

  2. Adjective:

    • Half-serious, half-facetious; serio-comic: Speech or behavior that mixes seriousness and joking, often with a teasing or sarcastic undertone.
    • Crudely mixed; garbled: Used to describe something, especially language, that is mixed in a clumsy, absurd, or ridiculous way.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • Mẹ tôi kho một nồi thịt ba rọi. (My mother braised a pot of pork belly.)
    • Anh ta nói thứ tiếng Anh ba rọi khó hiểu. (He speaks a garbled, pidgin English that is hard to understand.)

  • Adjective:

    • Đừng có nói ba rọi thế, tôi đang bực đây. (Don't speak in that half-joking way, I'm annoyed right now.)
    • Giọng nói ba rọi của anh ấy khiến mọi người cười. (His serio-comic tone of voice made everyone laugh.)
Advanced Usage
  • The term "ba rọi" often carries a colloquial and slightly informal or pejorative connotation, especially when describing language or behavior. It implies a lack of purity, seriousness, or proper form.
Variants and Related Words
  • Ba chỉ (n): A more common and standard synonym for . "Ba rọi" is often considered a regional or dialectal variant of "ba chỉ."
  • Nửa đùa nửa thật (adj): The literal phrase for "half-joking, half-serious."
Synonyms
  • Pork belly: A cut of meat.
  • Pidgin: A simplified language.
  • Facetious: Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor.
  • Garbled: Confused and distorted.
Related Idioms
  • Nói tiếng Tây ba rọi: To speak a crude, mixed, or broken form of French (or any Western language). This idiom is the source of the extended meaning for "pidgin" or "garbled" language.
    • Học không đến nơi nên chỉ biết nói tiếng Tây ba rọi. (He didn't study properly, so he only knows how to speak pidgin French.)
ba rọi

Mẹ mua một miếng ba rọi để nướng cho bữa tối.

noun
  1. Side
    • miếng thịt ba rọi
      a cut of pork side
adj
  1. Half-serious half-facetious, serio-comic
    • lời nói ba rọi
      a half-serious half-facetious way of speaking, a serio-comic way of speaking Pidgin
    • tiếng Tây ba rọi
      pidgin French