Definition

1. Verb:

   • To be annoyed / irritated: To feel a state of mild anger, displeasure, or impatience, often due to a minor frustration or inconvenience.
   • To chafe / to fret: To feel restless or distressed from being hindered, delayed, or provoked.

2. Adjective:

   • Annoyed / Irritated: Describing the state of being bothered or vexed.
   • Fretful / Peevish: Describing a person who is easily agitated or in a bad mood.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Chờ lâu quá phát bực. (To fret from having to wait too long.)
  • Tin đó làm tôi bực cả ngày. (That news annoyed me all day.)

• Adjective:

  • Anh ấy trông rất bực. (He looks very annoyed.)
  • Đừng có bực như thế! (Don't be so peevish!)

Advanced Usage

• The word "bực" often implies a lingering, simmering irritation rather than intense, sudden anger. It is commonly used to describe a bad mood stemming from accumulated minor annoyances.
• "bực mình": A common compound meaning "to be irritated/vexed," emphasizing the internal feeling.
  • Câu chuyện ấy khiến tôi bực mình. (That story made me irritated.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bực bội (adj/verb): More intense than "bực," meaning irritable, frustrated, or to be in a state of frustration.
  • Sự chậm trễ gây bực bội. (The delay causes frustration.)
• Bực tức (adj/verb): Emphasizes anger mixed with irritation, meaning to be angry and annoyed.
  • Cô ấy bực tức vì bị hiểu lầm. (She was angry and annoyed because of being misunderstood.)

Synonyms

• Annoyed: Slightly angry or irritated.
• Irritated: Showing slight anger or impatience.
• Fretful: Behaving in a worried or annoyed way.
• Peevish: Easily irritated, especially by unimportant things.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Bực cả mình: To be thoroughly annoyed or chafed.
  • Lời nói của hắn làm cho ai bực cả mình. (His words made someone chafe.)
• Phát bực: To become annoyed (often from a specific cause).
  • Nghe mãi một bài hát phát bực. (Listening to the same song until you become annoyed.)

verb & adj

1. To fret; fretty, fretful
   • chờ lâu quá phát bực
     to fret from having to wait too long
   • làm cho ai bực cả mình
     to make someone chafe

noun

1. như bậc