làm lông
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Definition
- Verb:
- To pluck, to deplume (a bird): The action of removing the feathers from a bird (e.g., a chicken, duck, goose) after it has been killed, typically as part of food preparation.
- To remove hair (from an animal skin): The action of scraping or removing hair from the skin of a mammal (e.g., a pig) after slaughter, typically as part of food preparation.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Mẹ tôi đang làm lông con vịt. (My mother is plucking the duck.)
- Sau khi mổ lợn, người ta phải làm lông thật sạch. (After slaughtering the pig, people must thoroughly remove the hair.)
Advanced Usage
- "làm lông gà vịt": to pluck poultry.
- Công việc làm lông gà vịt đòi hỏi sự kiên nhẫn. (The job of plucking poultry requires patience.)
- "làm lông bằng nước sôi": to pluck/remove hair using boiling water.
- Để dễ làm lông, người ta thường nhúng gà vào nước sôi trước. (To make plucking easier, people usually dip the chicken in boiling water first.)
Variants and Related Words
- Vặt lông (verb): to pluck (feathers). Often used interchangeably with for birds.
- Cô ấy đang vặt lông ngỗng. (She is plucking the goose.)
- Cạo lông (verb): to shave/scrape off hair. Often used for mammals like pigs.
- Họ dùng dao cạo để cạo lông lợn. (They use a scraper to shave the hair off the pig.)
- Tỉa lông (verb): to trim feathers/fur. This implies neatening, not complete removal for preparation.
- Tôi cần tỉa lông cho chú chó của mình. (I need to trim my dog's fur.)
Synonyms
- Nhổ lông (verb): to pull out hair/feathers. (More specific to the pulling action).
- Làm sạch lông (verb phrase): to clean off the hair/feathers.
Notes on Different Meanings
- The word "làm lông" is specifically used in the context of food preparation (butchery, cooking). It is not used for grooming pets (e.g., brushing a dog's fur) or for human hair removal (e.g., shaving, waxing). For those contexts, words like (to cut hair), (to shave beard), or (to trim fur) are used.
- Pluck, deplume (a hen, goosẹ..), remove hair from the skin of (a pig... when killing it)
- Làm lông con gà sau khi nhúng vào nước sôiTo deplume a chicken after dipping it into boiling water