lầy thụt
Definition
- Adjective:
- Marshy and boggy: Describes terrain that is swampy, waterlogged, and soft, where one's feet sink in deeply.
- Squelchy and muddy: Refers to ground that is extremely muddy, yielding, and prone to causing things to become stuck or mired.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Con đường sau mưa trở nên lầy thụt. (The road became squelchy and boggy after the rain.)
- Khu đất này lầy thụt, không thể xây nhà được. (This plot of land is marshy and boggy; you cannot build a house on it.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used to vividly emphasize the difficulty of traversing an area due to its deep, clinging mud and unstable, water-saturated condition.
Variants and Related Words
- Lầy lội (adj): Muddy, swampy. Describes a generally muddy area.
- Cánh đồng lầy lội sau cơn bão. (The field was muddy after the storm.)
Synonyms
- Boggy: Ground that is wet, spongy, and unstable.
- Marshy: Characteristic of a marsh; soft, wet land.
- Squelchy: Making a soft sucking sound when walked on, due to mud and water.
- Miry: Full of deep mud.
Related Idioms
- While "lầy thụt" itself is not typically part of a set idiom, it describes the condition central to phrases like:
- Sa vào chỗ lầy thụt: To get stuck in a boggy/quagmire situation (can be used literally or figuratively).