hoăng

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Cái mùi thối hoăng từ đống rác khiến mọi người phải bịt mũi.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a strong, pervasive, and unpleasant smell; stinking, fetid: "hoăng" describes a foul odor that spreads and fills the surrounding area, typically from something rotten or spoiled.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Con cá ươn thối hoăng. (The stale fish is terribly stinking.)
  • Thùng rác để lâu ngày bốc mùi hoăng. (The trash bin left for many days emits a fetid smell.)
  • Căn phòng kín có mùi hoăng khó chịu. (The sealed room has an unpleasant, pervasive stench.)

Advanced Usage

• Used for emphasis: Often paired with other adjectives like "thối" (rotten) to intensify the description of a foul smell.
  • mùi thối hoăng: a revoltingly foul smell
• Describes pervasive quality: The word emphasizes not just the presence but the spreading, all-encompassing nature of the bad odor.

Variants and Related Words

• Hoắng (adj): A variant spelling/pronunciation with the same meaning of a strong, bad smell.
• Thối (adj): Rotten, putrid. While "thối" describes the state of decay, "hoăng" specifically emphasizes the powerful, spreading smell resulting from it.
• Hôi (adj): Smelly, malodorous. A more general term for bad smell, less intense than "hoăng".

Synonyms

• Hôi thối: stinking, foul-smelling.
• Nồng nặc (often for thick, heavy smells): pungent, reeking.
• Xú uế: filthy, foul (can describe smell or general filth).

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Thối hoăng: This common collocation is an idiom meaning "extremely foul-smelling" or "rotten to the core."
  • Chuyện đó thối hoăng rồi, đừng nhắc đến nữa. (That matter stinks to high heaven now, don't bring it up again.)

Học thuật

1. Pervading (nói về mùi hôi thối)
   • Con cá ươn thối hoăng
     A stale fish with a pervading stink