nhớp nháp

Đống lá bánh chưng nhớp nháp nằm trên mặt đất.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Slimy and dirty: Describes a surface or substance that is unpleasantly sticky, greasy, and dirty to the touch, often due to moisture mixed with grime.
   • Slick and grimy: Conveys a sense of something being wet, oily, and unclean, causing a repulsive tactile sensation.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau cơn mưa, mặt đường trở nên nhớp nháp. (After the rain, the road surface became slimy and dirty.)
  • Đừng chạm vào đó, nó nhớp nháp lắm. (Don't touch that, it's very slick and grimy.)
  • Tay cô ấy nhớp nháp vì dầu mỡ. (Her hands were greasy and dirty from the oil.)

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe abstract feelings of moral or aesthetic repulsiveness.
  • Câu chuyện đó nghe thật nhớp nháp. (That story sounds really sleazy/unwholesome.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nhớp (adj): Dirty, grimy. Often implies a dry or sticky dirt.

  • Cái bàn này nhớp quá. (This table is so grimy.)

• Nháp (adj): This is rarely used alone in modern Vietnamese but contributes the sense of a rough, unpleasant texture in the compound "nhớp nháp."

Synonyms

• Greasy and dirty: Covered with an oily, unclean substance.
• Slimy: Unpleasantly slippery and moist, often suggesting something foul.
• Grimy: Covered with ingrained dirt.

Related Idioms

• Nhớp nháp như chạm phải đỉa: (As slimy as touching a leech) Used to emphasize an extremely unpleasant, slimy, and dirty tactile sensation.