bét be

Thân thiện

Sau khi ăn kem, mặt và tay con bé bét be cả sô-cô-la.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Completely soaked, drenched, or saturated: Describes something that is extremely wet, often to the point of being dripping or soggy.
   • Utterly messy, smeared, or spread out in a disorderly way: Can describe a substance (like paint, mud, ink) that is spread messily over a surface, or a situation that is in complete disarray.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Trời mưa to khiến quần áo tôi ướt bét be. (The heavy rain left my clothes completely soaked.)
  • Đứa trẻ nghịch sơn và làm bẩn bét be cả bức tường. (The child played with paint and made the wall utterly messy.)
  • Sau trận lũ, cả căn nhà ngập bét be trong bùn. (After the flood, the whole house was drenched in mud.)

Advanced Usage

• "bét be ra": to be spread out messily, to be splattered.

  • Mứt bị đổ và chảy bét be ra trên bàn. (The jam spilled and spread out messily all over the table.)

• Used for emphasis to intensify the state of being wet or messy.

  • Ướt bét be means "soaking wet," more emphatic than just ướt (wet).
  • Bẩn bét be means "filthy dirty" or "smeared with dirt."

Variants and Related Words

• Be bét: The more common and standard variant with identical meaning. "Bét be" is a less common, inverted form of "be bét."

  • Mặt nó lem nhem mực be bét. (His face was smeared with ink.)

• Lết bết: (Adjective/Adverb) Describes something wet, sticky, and clinging unpleasantly (e.g., wet clothes clinging to skin, mud on shoes).

  • Quần áo ướt lết bết vào người. (The wet clothes clung unpleasantly to the body.)

Synonyms

• Ướt sũng: soaked through, drenched.
• Nhễ nhại: dripping wet (often with sweat).
• Lem nhem: smudged, smeared (often on a surface like a face).

Related Phrases

• Làm bét be mọi thứ: to mess everything up completely.
  • Nó làm bét be mọi thứ lên trong phòng. (He messed everything up in the room.)

Related Idioms

• (Ướt) như chuột lột: (as wet as) a drowned rat; idiom for being completely drenched.
  • Về đến nhà, anh ấy ướt như chuột lột. (When he got home, he was soaked to the bone like a drowned rat.)

Học thuật

1. (ít dùng) như be bét