Definition

1. 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.

1. 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 sôi
     To deplume a chicken after dipping it into boiling water