Definition

1. Verb:

   • To stir; to budge; to move slightly: To make a small, often restless movement, especially from a resting or still position.
   • (Colloquial) To wriggle out; to find a way to escape: To try to extricate oneself or maneuver out of a difficult, tight, or compromised situation.

2. Noun:

   • Spur: A hard, pointed growth on the leg of a rooster or some other birds, used for defense and attack.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Đứa bé đang ngủ và cựa mình. (The sleeping child stirred.)
  • Anh ta bị ghim dưới đống đổ nát, không thể cựa quậy. (He was pinned under the rubble and couldn't budge.)
  • Bị bắt quả tang, nó hết đường cựa. (Caught red-handed, he had no way to wriggle out of it.)

• Noun:

  • Con gà trống có cựa rất dài và sắc. (The rooster has very long and sharp spurs.)

Advanced Usage

• "cựa quậy": to fidget; to squirm. This compound emphasizes small, restless movements.
  • Đứa trẻ cựa quậy không yên trên ghế. (The child fidgeted restlessly in the chair.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cựa mình (v): to stir oneself; to move one's body slightly.
• Cựa quậy (v): to fidget, to wriggle.

Synonyms

• Verb: Stir, budge, fidget, twitch.
• Noun: Spur, claw (in specific zoological contexts).

Related Idioms

• Hết đường cựa: To have no way out; to be cornered with no escape or excuse.
  • Với đầy đủ bằng chứng, tên tội phạm đã hết đường cựa. (With all the evidence, the criminal had no way out.)

verb

1. To stir; to budge

noun

1. spur (of cock)