Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling bloated, having excessive gas in the digestive tract: The state of having an uncomfortable sensation of fullness, tightness, or swelling in the abdomen, often caused by excess gas.
   • Flatulent: Pertaining to or suffering from the condition of having gas in the digestive tract.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau khi ăn món đó, tôi cảm thấy rất đầy hơi. (After eating that dish, I felt very bloated.)
  • Triệu chứng phổ biến của khó tiêu là đầy hơi và đau bụng. (A common symptom of indigestion is bloating and stomach ache.)
  • Bụng anh ấy căng và đầy hơi. (His stomach is distended and gassy.)

Advanced Usage

• "bị đầy hơi": to suffer from bloating/to be bloated.
  • Tôi thường bị đầy hơi sau khi uống sữa. (I often get bloated after drinking milk.)
• "chứng đầy hơi": the condition/symptom of bloating.
  • Chứng đầy hơi có thể do nhiều nguyên nhân khác nhau. (Bloating can be caused by many different reasons.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đầy bụng (adj): Feeling full/stuffed (often after eating, can overlap with 'đầy hơi' but focuses more on the sensation of fullness rather than specifically gas).
• Trướng bụng (adj): Distended abdomen, often due to gas or fluid.
• Xì hơi / Đánh rắm (v): To pass gas, to fart (the action of releasing intestinal gas).

Synonyms

• Chướng bụng: Abdominal distension.
• Ợ hơi: To belch, to burp (releasing gas from the stomach through the mouth).

Related Phrases

• Đầy hơi khó tiêu: Bloated and indigested.
  • Bữa trưa nhiều dầu mỡ khiến tôi đầy hơi khó tiêu. (The greasy lunch made me bloated and indigested.)
• Cảm giác đầy hơi: The feeling of bloating.
  • Cô ấy phàn nàn về cảm giác đầy hơi khó chịu. (She complained about the uncomfortable feeling of bloating.)

Notes on Usage

• 'Đầy hơi' is primarily used as an adjective to describe a physical state or symptom. It is common in both everyday conversation and medical contexts.
• It is often used with verbs like cảm thấy (to feel), bị (to suffer from), or bị chứng (to have the condition of).
• While 'flatulent' is a direct and formal medical equivalent in English, in everyday English descriptions, "bloated," "gassy," or "having gas" are more commonly used.

1. Flatulent
   • Cảm thấy đầy hơi
     To feel flatulent