Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Sharp, piercing, biting: Describes a physical sensation of intense, penetrating cold or pain that feels deep and acute, often compared to being pricked by needles.
   • Intensely regrettable (colloquial): Used informally to express a feeling of sharp regret or annoyance over a loss or unfortunate event.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Physical Sensation):

  • Trời đông buốt giá. (The winter weather is biting cold.)
  • Cô ấy cảm thấy đau buốt ở đầu gối. (She feels a sharp pain in her knee.)
  • Gió mùa đông bắc lạnh buốt xương. (The northeasterly wind chills one to the bone.)

• Adjective (Regret - Colloquial):

  • Tôi làm mất chiếc nhẫn, buốt quá! (I lost the ring, it's so regrettable!)

Advanced Usage

• "buốt gan tím ruột": An idiom meaning to be seething with anger, literally "to have a piercing liver and purple intestines."
  • Nghe tin đó, anh ta buốt gan tím ruột. (Hearing that news, he was seething with anger.)

Variants and Related Words

• Buôn buốt (adj): A reduplicated form indicating a milder, tingling sensation of cold or pain.
  • Cơn gió mang theo hơi nước khiến da buôn buốt. (The wind carrying moisture made the skin tingle with cold.)

Synonyms

• Piercing: (for cold or pain) extremely sharp and penetrating.
• Biting: (for cold) intense and causing a sharp sensation.
• Acute: (for pain) very severe and sharp.

Related Idioms

• Lạnh buốt xương: Frozen to the bone; chilled to the marrow.

  • Đêm không lò sưởi, chúng tôi lạnh buốt xương. (The night without a heater, we were frozen to the bone.)

• Đau buốt như kim châm: A pain as sharp as being pricked by needles.

  • Vết thương đau buốt như kim châm. (The wound hurt as sharply as being pricked by needles.)

adj

1. Feeling a sharp pain, feeling a biting cold; sharp, biting
   • lạnh buốt xương
     frozen to the bone
   • đau buốt như kim châm
     to feel a sharp pain as if pricked by needles