ba hoa

Thân thiện

Anh ấy thích ba hoa về những chuyến phiêu lưu của mình.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To brag or boast: To talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities, often exaggerating the truth.
   • To blabber or prate: To talk at length in a foolish, empty, or purposeless way, often revealing unimportant or secret information.

2. Adjective:

   • Boastful or garrulous: Describing a person who habitually brags or talks excessively and foolishly.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ta lúc nào cũng ba hoa là mình giỏi nhất. (He always brags that he is the best.)
  • Đừng ba hoa về kế hoạch đó cho bất kỳ ai. (Don't blab about that plan to anyone.)
• Adjective:
  • Anh chàng ba hoa ấy chẳng biết gì thực sự cả. (That boastful guy doesn't really know anything.)

Advanced Usage

• The term often carries a strong negative connotation, implying that the speaker is not trustworthy and their words are empty or exaggerated.
• It can be used to describe not just the act of boasting, but also the characteristic of being a boastful person.

Variants and Related Words

• Ba hoa thiên địa / Ba hoa xích đế (v): To jabber, to talk a great deal of utter nonsense.
  • Thôi đi, đừng ba hoa thiên địa ở đây nữa. (Stop it, don't jabber nonsense here anymore.)

Synonyms

• Brag: To boast.
• Blabber: To chatter foolishly or indiscreetly.
• Prate: To talk foolishly or at tedious length.
• Boastful (adj.): Showing excessive pride.

Related Idioms

• Ba hoa chích chòe: To talk frivolously and incessantly about everything.
  • Cô ấy chỉ biết ba hoa chích chòe, đừng tin những gì cô ta nói. (She only knows how to talk frivolously, don't believe what she says.)
• Ba hoa một tấc lên trời: To exaggerate wildly, to talk something up to an extreme degree.
  • Câu chuyện của hắn toàn là ba hoa một tấc lên trời. (His story is nothing but wild exaggeration.)

Học thuật

verb

1. to brag, to boast, to prate, to blabber
   • lúc nào hắn cũng ba hoa là không ai sánh được với hắn về tiếng Anh
     he always brags that he is unrivalled in English language
   • cô ta ba hoa rằng mình chưa bao giờ nghỉ việc một ngày nào vì bệnh cả
     she boasts that she has never missed a day's work because of illness
   • lão thầy bói đang ba hoa về cái gì thế?
     what's the old fortune-teller blabbering about?
   • lão ta ba hoa chẳng đâu vào đâu
     he prates on about nothing
   • ba hoa lộ bí mật
     to blab out secrets
   • ba hoa thiên địa
     to jabber, to talk a lot of nonsense