ngoạch

Một đứa trẻ viết ngoạch những nét chữ lên trang giấy trắng.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To scribble or scrawl: To write or draw something quickly, carelessly, and often illegibly, resulting in marks that are messy, crooked, or slanted.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Chữ của nó ngoạch quá, không đọc được. (His writing is scribbled too much; it's unreadable.)
  • Đứa bé ngoạch vài đường lên tường. (The child scrawled a few lines on the wall.)
  • Đừng ngoạch ngoạc vào sách. (Don't scribble in the book.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is often reduplicated as "ngoạch ngoạc", which intensifies the meaning of messy, careless scribbling.
  • Trang giấy toàn chữ ngoạch ngoạc. (The page is full of scribbles.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ngoạch ngoạc (v): The reduplicated form, meaning to scribble or scrawl messily.
  • Nó chỉ biết ngoạch ngoạc vài ba chữ. (He only knows how to scrawl a few words.)

Synonyms

• Scribble: To write or draw carelessly.
• Scrawl: To write in a hurried, untidy way.

Related Idioms

• Viết ngoạch như gà bới: To write as messily as a chicken scratching (a simile for very poor handwriting).
  • Bài kiểm tra của nó viết ngoạch như gà bới. (His test was written as messily as a chicken scratching.)