lố nhố

Ngoài đường lố nhố những người.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Describes a crowd or group of people that appears disorderly, jumbled, or bustling, often due to a mix of individuals of varying heights or because they are moving about in a somewhat chaotic manner. It conveys a sense of a dense, active, and visually untidy mass.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Trên đồi lố nhố những người đi xem hội. (The hill was teeming with a jumbled crowd of people going to the festival.)
  • Cổng trường lố nhố phụ huynh đón con. (The school gate was a bustling throng of parents picking up their children.)
  • Nhìn từ trên cao, đám đông trông thật lố nhố. (Seen from above, the crowd looked like a disorderly swarm.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is primarily used in descriptive contexts and often carries a slightly negative or neutral connotation, emphasizing lack of order rather than joyous celebration.

Variants and Related Words

• Lô nhô: An adjective with a very similar meaning and usage, often interchangeable with "lố nhố," describing things (often people or objects) protruding unevenly or appearing in a scattered, irregular cluster.
  • Những tảng đá lô nhô trên sườn núi. (The rocks jutted out unevenly on the mountainside.)

Synonyms

• Teeming: full of people or animals moving about actively.
• Swarming: moving in or forming a large, dense, disorderly group.
• Jumbled: mixed up in a disordered way.
• Motley: composed of diverse, often mismatched elements.

Related Idioms

• While "lố nhố" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is used in phrases like "lố nhố như kiến" (swarming like ants) to intensify the image of a dense, moving crowd.
  • Khu chợ lố nhố như kiến. (The market area was swarming with people like ants.)