chuội

Thân thiện

Rau muống phải chuội qua nước sôi trước khi xào để giữ được màu xanh.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To parboil: To boil briefly, often as a preliminary or incomplete cooking step.
   • To bleach (especially silk): To whiten or lighten the color of a material, particularly silk threads.
   • (Slang) To slip away; to fail miserably: To escape from one's grasp or control, or to fail in a disappointing or absurd manner.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Rau cần phải chuội qua nước sôi trước khi xào. (The water spinach must be parboiled before stir-frying.)
  • Người thợ đang chuội tơ để có màu trắng sáng. (The artisan is bleaching silk to achieve a bright white color.)
  • Cơ hội vàng đã chuội mất khỏi tay anh ta. (The golden opportunity slipped right through his fingers.)

Advanced Usage

• "chuội mất": to have slipped away completely; to be lost.
  • Vụ làm ăn đó đã chuội mất rồi. (That business deal has already slipped away/failed miserably.)

Variants and Related Words

• chuội (verb): A variant spelling with the same core meanings (to parboil, to bleach).
• chuồi chuội (reduplicative verb, attenuated meaning): To be half-cooked; to be partially done or unsuccessful.

Synonyms

• Trần qua (nước sôi): to scald or blanched briefly in boiling water.
• Tẩy trắng: to bleach, to whiten.
• Tuột mất: to slip away, to escape.

Related Idioms

• Chuội như con chuột chũi: (Simile) To fail pathetically or to slip away stealthily, like a mole. Implies a clumsy or complete failure.
  • Dự án của họ thất bại, chuội như con chuột chũi. (Their project failed, it went down in flames/slipped away pathetically.)

Học thuật

verb

1. To parboil
2. To bleach
   • chuội tơ
     to bleach silk
3. To slip through one's fingers