Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Slimily wet, sticky with moisture: Describes something that is unpleasantly wet and sticky, often with a viscous or slimy quality.
   • (Of eyes) Half-closed, sticky: Describes eyes that are barely open, as if the eyelids are gummed or stuck together, often due to sleep or illness.

2. Adverb:

   • Drawlingly, indistinctly: Describes a manner of speaking where words are mumbled, slurred, or run together incoherently.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • Sau cơn mưa, mặt đường dấp dính bùn. (After the rain, the road surface was slimily wet with mud.)
  • Đứa bé thức dậy với đôi mắt còn dấp dính vì buồn ngủ. (The child woke up with eyes still sticky/half-closed from sleepiness.)

• Adverb:

  • Ông ấy nói dấp dính, khó nghe rõ từng chữ. (He spoke drawlingly/indistinctly, making it hard to hear each word clearly.)
  • Cô ấy trả lời dấp dính không ra câu vì quá mệt. (She answered incoherently, not forming a proper sentence, because she was too tired.)

Advanced Usage

• "Nói dấp dính không ra câu": To speak so indistinctly and incoherently that one fails to form a proper sentence.
  • Anh ta say rượu, nói dấp dính không ra câu. (He was drunk, speaking incoherently without forming proper sentences.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dấp da dấp dính (reduplicative form): An intensified or more descriptive form, often emphasizing a state of being unpleasantly moist, sticky, or unclear.
  • Câu chuyện anh ấy kể dấp da dấp dính, chẳng ai hiểu gì. (The story he told was mumbled and incoherent; nobody understood anything.)

Synonyms

• Lầy nhầy / Nhớp nháp: Slimy, sticky, muddy (for the wet/sticky meaning).
• Lơ mơ / Lim dim: Drowsy, half-closed (for eyes).
• Lầm bầm / Lắp bắp: To mumble, to stammer (for indistinct speech).

Related Phrases/Idioms

• Mắt dấp dính: Sticky/half-closed eyes.
  • Buổi sáng, nó thường có mắt dấp dính. (In the morning, it often has sticky/half-closed eyes.)
• Giọng nói dấp dính: A drawling, indistinct voice.
  • Nghe giọng nói dấp dính của anh ấy thật khó chịu. (Listening to his drawling, indistinct voice is really unpleasant.)

1. (ít dùng)
2. Slimily wet.
3. (nói về mắt) Half-closed (as if the upper and lower eyelids nearly stuck together)
4. Drawling (words into one another)
   • Nói dấp dính không ra câu
     To drawl out words incoherently
   • dấp da dấp dính (láy)