ngấy

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Ăn quá nhiều bánh ngọt khiến tôi thấy ngấy.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Cloying; sickly; overly rich: Describes food that is excessively fatty, greasy, or sweet, causing a feeling of disgust or revulsion and a loss of appetite.
   • Fed up; tired of; sick of: Expresses a strong feeling of boredom, disgust, or weariness from having too much of something (e.g., an activity, food, situation) or experiencing it too often.

2. Verb (colloquial):

   • To feel feverish: To experience the initial or mild symptoms of a fever.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (cloying):
  • Món ăn này mỡ quá rất ngấy. (This dish is too greasy, it is very cloying.)
  • Bánh ngọt ngấy. (This cake is sickly sweet.)
• Adjective (fed up):
  • Ngày nào cũng ăn một thứ, ngấy rồi. (Eating the same thing every day, I'm fed up with it now.)
  • Anh ấy ngấy loại tiểu thuyết như thế lắm. (He is completely tired of that sort of novel.)
• Verb (to feel feverish):
  • Tôi thấy ngấy sốt. (I feel feverish.)

Advanced Usage

• "ngấy đến mang tai": An idiom intensifying the feeling of being fed up or disgusted, meaning "to be completely and utterly sick of something."
  • Suốt một tuần ăn thịt mỡ, ngấy đến mang tai. (After a whole week of eating fatty meat, I'm completely sick of it.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ngây ngấy (reduplicative form): An attenuated form meaning "to feel a bit feverish" or "to feel slightly warm."
  • Đứa trẻ trán hơi ngây ngấy. (The child's forehead feels a bit warm/feverish.)

Synonyms

• Cloying, sickly, greasy, rich (for food).
• Fed up, weary, bored, disgusted, sick and tired (for a state of mind).
• Feverish, warm (for health).

Related Idioms

• Ngấy đến mang tai: To be fed up to the back teeth; to be completely disgusted.

Học thuật

1. Salmonberry (cây)
2. Have one's appetite cloyed
   • Món ăn này mỡ quá rất ngấy
     This dish is too greasy, it easily cloys one's appetite
   • Bánh ngọt ngấy
     This cake is cloyingly sweet
3. Be fed up with, be tried of
   • Ngày nào cũng ăn một thứ, ngấy rồi
     To be tired of a food one has to eat every day
   • Ngấy đến mang tai
     To be completely fed up with
   • Ngấy sốt
     Feel feverish
   • Ngây ngấy (láy, ý giảm)
     To feel a bit feverish