lồng hổng

Một đứa trẻ lồng hổng đòi mua đồ chơi trong cửa hàng.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Spoiled and impolite: Used to describe a child who is both badly behaved, rude, and makes excessive demands because they have been overly indulged or pampered.
   • Insolent and petulant: Conveys a sense of a child being disrespectful and whiny due to being spoiled.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đứa bé đó thật là lồng hổng, luôn mè nheo và cãi lại người lớn. (That child is so spoiled and impolite, always whining and talking back to adults.)
  • Bố mẹ chiều quá nên bây giờ nó hư, lồng hổng lắm. (His parents spoiled him too much, so now he's naughty and insolent.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used to describe children's behavior. It implies that the poor behavior is a direct result of excessive pampering.

Variants and Related Words

• Hỗn láo (adj): rude, insolent (a key component of being ).
• Vòi vĩnh (v): to pester, to make persistent and unreasonable demands (a key component of being ).
• Hư (adj): spoiled, naughty (a more general term for a badly behaved child).

Synonyms

• Spoiled and rude
• Pampered and insolent
• Brattish

Related Idioms

• While itself is not typically part of a longer idiom, the behavior it describes is often captured in phrases like:
  • Được voi đòi tiên: To give an inch and take a mile (describes the demanding nature of a lồng hổng child).

    • Chiều nó một chút là nó được voi đòi tiên ngay, đúng là tính lồng hổng. (Indulge him a little and he immediately demands more; that's typical brattish behavior.)