Definition

1. Verb (Thô tục):
   • To fart, to pass gas: To release intestinal gas from the anus, often with a sound. This is a vulgar, informal, and onomatopoeic term in Vietnamese.
   • To make a farting sound: To produce a short, explosive sound resembling a fart.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Ai đó vừa bủm trong phòng họp à? (Did someone just fart in the meeting room?)
  • Đứa bé cười và giả vờ bủm. (The child laughed and pretended to fart.)
  • Cái ghế sofa cũ kêu bủm một cái khi tôi ngồi xuống. (The old sofa made a farting sound when I sat down.)

Advanced Usage

• This word is highly informal and vulgar. It is almost exclusively used in casual, humorous, or childish contexts among close friends or family. It is considered rude in formal or polite company.
• It can be used as an interjection to describe the sound itself, similar to "poot" or "toot" in English.
  • Nghe tiếng "bủm" từ phòng bên. (Hear the "poot" sound from the next room.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đánh rắm (verb, less vulgar): To fart. This is still informal but slightly less crude than "bủm."
• Xì hơi (verb, informal): To fart. This is a common, colloquial term.
• Trung tiện (verb, formal/medical): To pass gas, to flatulate. This is the polite or clinical term.

Synonyms

• Thải khí (verb, formal): To emit gas.
• Ỉa (verb, extremely vulgar): While primarily meaning "to defecate," it can be used crudely in similar contexts.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Bủm ra quần (vulgar idiom): To fart in one's pants (literally). Can mean to be very scared or to make a humiliating mistake.
  • Bài thuyết trình khó quá, tưởng chừng tôi bủm ra quần. (The presentation was so hard, I almost shit my pants [from fear].)

Related Idioms

• Cười *bủm bủm*: To giggle or laugh in a silly, snorting manner, often implying a childlike or goofy laugh.
  • Nghe chuyện đó, nó cười bủm bủm cả buổi. (Hearing that story, he giggled like a fool all afternoon.)
• Nói *bủm bủm*: To talk nonsense or to speak in a silly, unserious way.
  • Đừng có nói bủm bủm ở đây. (Don't talk nonsense here.)

1. (tục) Fart