lầm lội

Đường sá lầm lội sau cơn mưa lớn.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Muddy and waterlogged: Describes a path, road, or area that is dirty, wet, and covered with sticky, sloppy mud, often making travel difficult and messy.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau cơn mưa, con đường làng trở nên lầm lội. (After the rain, the village road became muddy and waterlogged.)
  • Chúng tôi phải đi qua một đoạn lầm lội để đến được nhà. (We had to traverse a muddy, waterlogged section to reach the house.)

Advanced Usage

• Used descriptively, often to emphasize the difficulty or unpleasantness of traversing a wet, muddy terrain. It can imply a state of being dirtied by mud.

Variants and Related Words

• Lầy (adj): boggy, marshy; describes land that is soft and wet.

  • Cánh đồng này rất lầy. (This field is very boggy.)

• Bùn lầy (n): mud, mire; the substance itself.

  • Xe bị sa vào bùn lầy. (The car got stuck in the mire.)

Synonyms

• Muddy: covered in or full of mud.
• Soggy: waterlogged and soft.
• Miry: full of deep mud.

Related Idioms

• Lội bùn lấm bẩn: to wade through mud and get dirty (describes the action of traversing a area).
  • Đi cứu trợ vùng lũ, các tình nguyện viên không ngại lội bùn lấm bẩn. (Going to provide relief in the flooded area, the volunteers did not mind wading through mud and getting dirty.)