Definition

1. Verb:

   • To stuff, to cram, to fill: To push and pack a material or substance tightly into a container or space until it is full.
   • To overfeed, to force-feed: To make a person or animal eat an excessive amount of food.
   • To knead (dough): To work and press a mixture, like flour and water, with the hands.
   • To stuff (in taxidermy): To fill the skin of a dead animal with material to preserve its shape.

2. Verb (figurative):

   • To indoctrinate, to cram (ideas): To force someone to accept a large amount of information, ideas, or propaganda, often in a relentless manner.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Nhồi bông vào gối. (To stuff cotton into a pillow.)
  • Nhồi cho lắm bánh vào rồi mà đau bụng. (If you cram your stomach with so much cake, you will have a stomachache.)
  • Nhồi bột. (To knead dough.)
  • Bị nhồi nhiều tư tưởng lãng mạn. (To be stuffed with many romantic notions.)

Advanced Usage

• "nhồi nhét": to cram, to stuff (often used for both physical objects and information).

  • Giáo viên không nên nhồi nhét kiến thức cho học sinh. (Teachers should not cram knowledge into students.)

• "nhồi sọ": to brainwash (a strong term for forceful indoctrination).

  • Họ bị nhồi sọ bởi tuyên truyền. (They were brainwashed by propaganda.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nhồi nệm (v): to stuff a mattress.

  • Công việc của anh ấy là nhồi nệm. (His job is to stuff mattresses.)

• Nhồi thịt (v): to stuff with meat (e.g., for cooking).

  • Nhồi thịt vào ớt chuông. (To stuff bell peppers with meat.)

Synonyms

• To stuff: to fill tightly.
• To cram: to force something into a space.
• To knead: to work dough.
• To indoctrinate: to teach a doctrine or ideology uncritically.

Related Idioms

• Ăn nhồi ăn nhét: to gorge oneself, to eat gluttonously.
  • Đừng ăn nhồi ăn nhét như vậy, hại sức khỏe lắm. (Don't gorge yourself like that; it's very bad for your health.)

1. Stuff, cram, line, fill
   • Nhồi bông vào gối
     To stuff cotton into a pillow
   • Nhồi thuốc vào tẩu
     To cram one's pipe with tobaco
   • Nhồi cho lắm bánh vào rồi mà đau bụng
     If you cram your stomach with so much cake, you will have an attack of indigestion
   • Bị nhồi nhiều tư tưởng lãng mạn
     To be stuffed with many romentic notions
2. Overfeed (poultry).
3. (địa phương) như nhào
   • Nhồi bột
     To knead flour