Definition

1. Verb:
   • To slaughter an animal by cutting its throat to let the blood drain out: This is a specific method of slaughtering livestock or poultry, typically done immediately after stunning or restraining the animal, primarily for food preparation.
   • To stick (an animal): A direct, often more technical or blunt translation of the action.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Người nông dân đang cắt tiết con gà để chuẩn bị cho bữa tối. (The farmer is sticking the chicken to prepare for dinner.)
  • Công đoạn cắt tiết là bước quan trọng trong quy trình giết mổ. (The sticking stage is an important step in the slaughtering process.)
  • Trước khi làm thịt, họ phải cắt tiết con lợn. (Before butchering, they have to stick the pig.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in the context of animal husbandry, traditional slaughter, and food preparation. It describes a concrete, physical action.
• It can be used metaphorically in very informal or crude contexts to mean causing someone to lose a large amount of money or to defeat someone decisively, though this is not the primary meaning.
  • Đối thủ bị cắt tiết với tỷ số 5-0. (The opponent was slaughtered with a score of 5-0.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cắt cổ (verb): To cut the throat. This is a more general term that can apply to both the slaughter of animals and, in a violent context, to people. Cắt tiết is a specific subset of cắt cổ for animals intended for food.
• Mổ tiết (verb): Another term for slaughtering an animal by cutting the throat, often used interchangeably in some regions.
• Tiết (noun): Blood (specifically animal blood, often collected after cắt tiết to make dishes like - blood pudding).

Synonyms

• Saigner (verb): To bleed (an animal). This is the direct equivalent from French, as seen in the reference.
• Égorger (verb): To slit the throat, to cut the throat. This is another direct equivalent from French.
• To bleed out (verb phrase): To cause to lose blood until death.

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• Cắt tiết gà: To stick a chicken.
• Cắt tiết lợn/vịt/ngỗng: To stick a pig/duck/goose.
• Làm tiết canh: To make blood pudding (which requires the blood from cắt tiết).

Related Idioms

• While cắt tiết itself is not commonly used in idiomatic expressions, the related noun tiết (blood) appears in idioms like:
  • Cạn nước cạn tình, đầy tiết đầy đình: An idiom suggesting that relationships can be as binding as shared blood or ancestry. (This does not use the verb cắt tiết).

1. To stick
   • cắt tiết lợn
     to stick a pig
   • cắt tiết gà
     to stick a chicken