hoăng hoắc

Thân thiện

Anh ấy làm việc một cách hoăng hoắc, không biết mệt mỏi.

Definition

1. Adjective (reduplicative):
   • Extremely pungent or rank: Describes a very strong, sharp, and unpleasant smell, often of something spoiled, rotten, or putrid. It intensifies the base adjective "hoắc" or "hoăng."
   • Extremely fierce or savage: Used figuratively to describe behavior, temper, or actions that are violently aggressive, wild, or ferocious.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Mùi thức ăn thối để lâu ngày hoăng hoắc. (The smell of long-rotten food is extremely rank.)
  • Con chó đó hung dữ hoăng hoắc. (That dog is savagely fierce.)
  • Cơn giận của anh ta hoăng hoắc. (His anger was wildly violent.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is a reduplicative form (từ láy) used for emphatic intensification. It is often considered a stronger version of "hoắc" or "hoăng."
• It is primarily used in informal, colloquial speech to add vivid emphasis.

Variants and Related Words

• Hoắc (adj): Pungent, rank, fierce. The base word.
• Hoăng (adj): A shortened, colloquial form meaning pungent or fierce.

Synonyms

• Extremely stinky: profoundly foul-smelling.
• Extremely ferocious: intensely savage or violent.

Related Idioms

• Nóng hoăng hoắc: To be in an extremely fierce or violent rage.
  • Anh ta nóng hoăng hoắc khi nghe tin. (He flew into an extremely fierce rage upon hearing the news.)

Học thuật

1. xem hoắc (láy)