nhăng nhẳng

Thân thiện

Một đứa trẻ nhăng nhẳng đòi mua một món đồ chơi trong cửa hàng.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Insistent; pestering; nagging: Describes a persistent, repetitive, and often annoying manner of asking, talking, or complaining. It implies a refusal to stop despite being told to.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nó nhăng nhẳng xin tiền mẹ. (He pestered his mother insistently for money.)
  • Đứa trẻ nhăng nhẳng đòi mua đồ chơi. (The child nagged insistently to buy a toy.)
  • Đừng có nhăng nhẳng bên tai tôi nữa! (Stop pestering me by my ear!)

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used to describe the tone or behavior of children making repeated, whining demands. It can also describe adults in a derogatory way when they complain or harp on a subject incessantly.

Variants and Related Words

• Nhằng nhẵng (adj): A variant with a very similar meaning, also denoting persistent and annoying repetition.
  • Nó kể nhằng nhẵng một câu chuyện. (He told the same story over and over annoyingly.)

Synonyms

• Persistent: Continuing firmly in a course of action.
• Nagging: Annoyingly persistent.
• Importunate: Persistent, especially to the point of annoyance.

Related Idioms

• While "nhăng nhẳng" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, the behavior it describes is central to expressions like (to plead and pester).

Học thuật

1. Insisten
   • Nhăng nhẳng xin tiền mẹ
     To ask insistently for money from one's mother