kềnh càng

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kềnh càng

Đứa bé không thể cầm nắm vì bàn tay bị ghẻ kềnh càng.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Bulky, cumbersome: Describes objects that are large, heavy, and awkward to handle or move, often taking up too much space.
    • Lying in the way / obstructive: Refers to items that are inconveniently placed, causing an obstruction or being in the way.
  2. Adjective (in medical context):
    • Stiff and crusted (from scabies): Describes a hand or limb that is severely affected by scabies or a similar skin condition, leading to stiffness and an inability to bend or close properly.
Usage Examples
  • Adjective (bulky):
    • Đồ đạc kềnh càng. (Bulky furniture.)
    • Chiếc tủ cũ này quá kềnh càng cho căn phòng nhỏ. (This old wardrobe is too cumbersome for the small room.)
  • Adjective (obstructive):
    • Sao để các thứ kềnh càng như thế này? (Why have you left things lying in the way like this?)
  • Adjective (medical):
    • Tay bị ghẻ kềnh càng không co lại được. (To have one's hands so stiff with scabies that one cannot close them.)
Advanced Usage
  • The term often carries a negative connotation of inconvenience and impracticality, used to criticize the size, placement, or condition of something.
  • It can be used metaphorically to describe abstract concepts like bureaucratic procedures or plans that are overly complicated and inefficient, though this is an extended, colloquial use.
    • Dự án mới có quy trình kềnh càng. (The new project has a cumbersome process.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Kềnh (adj): Can be used alone in some dialects to imply something is large, spread out, or lying awkwardly. It is less common than the full form "kềnh càng."
Synonyms
  • Cumbersome: Difficult to handle due to size or weight.
  • Unwieldy: Not easily carried or managed because of shape or size.
  • Obstructive: Causing an obstruction; being in the way.
  • Bulky: Taking up much space.
Related Idioms
  • While "kềnh càng" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, its imagery is used in descriptive phrases.
    • Nằm kềnh ra đó: To lie sprawled out (often inelegantly or obstructively).
kềnh càng

Đứa bé không thể cầm nắm vì bàn tay bị ghẻ kềnh càng.

  1. Bulky, cumbrous, lying in the way
    • Đồ đạc kềnh càng
      Bulky furniture
    • Sao để các thứ kềnh càng như thế này
      Why have you left things lying in the way like that
  2. Be stiff with itch-mites
    • Tay bị ghẻ kềnh ghẻ càng không co lại được
      To have one's hands so stiff with itch-mites that one cannot close them