lom khom

Một người nông dân lom khom cấy lúa trên cánh đồng.

Definition

1. Adjective/Adverb:
   • Stooped, hunched, bent over: Describes the posture of a person or animal with the back curved forward, often due to age, effort, or the nature of an activity.
   • Moving in a stooped or crouching manner: Describes the action of walking or moving while keeping the body bent low.

Usage Examples

• Adjective/Adverb:
  • Ông cụ đứng lom khom trước cửa nhà. (The old man stood stooped in front of the house.)
  • Người nông dân lom khom cấy lúa trên đồng. (The farmer is bent over, transplanting rice in the field.)
  • "Lom khom dưới núi tiều vài chú" (A few woodcutters, stooped, under the mountain) - from a famous poem by Bà Huyện Thanh Quan.

Advanced Usage

• "lom khom lom khom": A reduplicated form sometimes used for emphasis or to describe a repeated, laborious, stooping motion.
  • Cả ngày bác ấy cứ lom khom lom khom trong vườn. (He spent the whole day constantly bending and stooping in the garden.)

Variants and Related Words

• Còng lưng (adj/phr): To have a hunched back (often implying a permanent condition).
  • Bà ấy đã còng lưng vì tuổi già. (She has a hunched back due to old age.)
• Khom người (v): To bend one's body, to stoop.
  • Anh ấy khom người bước qua cửa thấp. (He stooped to pass through the low door.)

Synonyms

• Cúi gập người: To bend one's body down.
• Khòm lưng: To arch one's back (in a stooped position).

Related Phrases/Idioms

• Lom khom như cò lặn: (Stooped like a diving heron) - An idiom vividly describing a deeply bent posture, often while working.
  • Bác nông dân lom khom như cò lặn giữa cánh đồng. (The farmer was stooped like a diving heron in the middle of the field.)