Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Soggy and muddy; pulpy and soft from excessive moisture: Describes a substance, typically earth or soil, that has become excessively soft, mushy, and formless due to being saturated with water, such as after heavy rain.
   • Unpleasantly soft and yielding: Can describe other materials that have lost their firmness and become unpleasantly soft, wet, and messy.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Con đường đất trở nên nhụng nhịu sau trận mưa lớn. (The dirt road became soggy and muddy after the heavy rain.)
  • Trái cây chín quá, thịt quả đã nhụng nhịu. (The fruit is overripe; its flesh has become pulpy and soft.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "nhụng nhịu" often carries a negative connotation, implying a state of being unpleasantly, excessively, or undesirably soft and wet, rather than just damp.

Variants and Related Words

• Nhũn (adj): Soft, mushy (often from being overripe or cooked).
  • Rau luộc quá lâu đã nhũn. (The vegetables boiled for too long have become mushy.)
• Nhão (adj): Soggy, pulpy, pasty (often used for food like overcooked noodles or muddy ground).
  • Bột nhão vì cho quá nhiều nước. (The dough is pasty because too much water was added.)

Synonyms

• Soggy: Wet and soft in a messy, unpleasant way.
• Mushy: Soft and pulpy.
• Pulpy: Having a soft, wet, formless texture.
• Muddy: Full of or covered in soft, wet earth.

Related Idioms

• While "nhụng nhịu" itself is not commonly used in idioms, it describes the physical state central to expressions about muddy conditions, such as (muddy and flooded).