Definition

1. Noun:
   • Eel: A type of freshwater fish with a long, round, snake-like body, small eyes, and smooth, slimy skin, typically yellowish-brown in color, that lives burrowed in mud.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Món lươn nướng là đặc sản của vùng này. (Grilled eel is a specialty of this region.)
  • Con lươn rất trơn và khó bắt. (The eel is very slippery and hard to catch.)
  • Bà tôi thường nấu cháo lươn. (My grandmother often cooks eel porridge.)

Advanced Usage

• "Lươn lẹo": This is a compound word. It is an adjective meaning sly, cunning, or deceitful in behavior.
  • Anh ta có tính lươn lẹo, không đáng tin. (He has a sly nature and is not trustworthy.)
• "Khúc lươn": This is a compound phrase. It refers to a segment or piece of an eel, often used in cooking.
  • Mua vài khúc lươn về kho. (Buy a few pieces of eel to braise.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lươn lẹo (adj): Sly, deceitful, evasive.
• Chạch (n): A related type of small, eel-like freshwater fish (loach).
• Lịch (n): A related term for a specific type of eel (often used in some regional dialects).

Synonyms

• Cá chình: (Freshwater) eel. (Note: "Cá chình" can sometimes refer to specific types like conger eel, but is a close synonym in general context.)
• Con lịch: A regional synonym for eel.

Related Idioms and Proverbs

• "Lươn ngắn lại chê chạch dài" / "Lươn ngắn chê chạch dài": This is a proverb. It literally means "The short eel criticizes the loach for being long." It is equivalent to "The pot calling the kettle black," criticizing someone for a fault you yourself possess.
  • Anh ta chỉ trích người khác là tham lam, đúng là lươn ngắn chê chạch dài. (He criticizes others for being greedy, it's truly a case of the pot calling the kettle black.)
• "Ti hí mắt lươn": This is a fixed descriptive phrase. It describes someone with narrow, sly-looking eyes (like an eel's eyes).
  • Gã đàn ông ti hí mắt lươn trông rất đáng ngờ. (The man with narrow, eel-like eyes looks very suspicious.)

noun

1. eal