Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Tastily rich, deliciously buttery: Describes a food that has a rich, fatty, and savory taste, often from animal fat or oil, that is pleasant and satisfying to the palate. It implies a desirable, mouth-coating richness, not excessive greasiness.
   • Unctuous, luscious: Conveys a sense of a smooth, creamy, and deeply satisfying fat content in food.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Món thịt lợn kho béo ngậy. (The braised pork dish is tastily rich and buttery.)
  • Kem sầu riêng này béo ngậy quá! (This durian ice cream is so lusciously rich!)
  • Sốt phô mai có vị béo ngậy. (The cheese sauce has a deliciously buttery taste.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "ngậy" is often paired with "béo" (fatty, rich) to form the common collocation "béo ngậy", which intensifies the description of savory richness.
• It can be reduplicated as "ngầy ngậy" to indicate a milder degree of this rich taste, meaning or .

Variants and Related Words

• Béo ngậy (adj): The standard and most frequent phrase, meaning rich, fatty, and savory in a pleasant way.
  • Bánh quy bơ có vị béo ngậy. (The butter cookies have a rich, buttery taste.)

Synonyms

• Rich: Having a lot of butter, cream, or fat in a way that tastes good.
• Buttery: Having the taste or quality of butter.
• Unctuous: (Of food) rich and fatty in a pleasant way.
• Luscious: Having a pleasingly rich, sweet, or savory taste.

Related Idioms

• While "ngậy" itself is not typically used in idioms, the concept is central to describing desirable culinary richness. The phrase "béo ngậy" is a fixed culinary descriptor.

1. Tastily rich, tasting deliciously buttery
   • Món thịt lợn kho béo ngậy
     A tasting deliciously buutery dish of stewed pork