nặc mùi

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Strong-smelling, pungent, rank: Describes a smell that is extremely intense, sharp, and often unpleasant or overpowering.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cái cống này nặc mùi hôi thối. (This drain is rank with a foul smell.)
  • Căn phòng nặc mùi thuốc lá. (The room reeks of cigarette smoke.)
  • Mùi nước hoa của cô ấy nặc mùi quá. (Her perfume is too pungent.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used to describe negative, offensive odors. It emphasizes an overwhelming and suffocating quality of the smell.

Variants and Related Words

• Nặc nồng (adj): an alternative form with a similar meaning of being strongly and unpleasantly odorous.
• Bốc mùi (v): to emit a smell, often a bad one.
• Hôi (adj): smelly, stinky.

Synonyms

• Pungent: having a sharply strong taste or smell.
• Rank: having a strong and unpleasant smell.
• Fetid: smelling extremely unpleasant.
• Rancid: having a stale, sour, or unpleasant smell, especially from decomposition.

Related Idioms

• While "nặc mùi" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is used in expressive phrases to emphasize a powerful stench.
  • Nặc mùi chết người: reeking to high heaven (literally, "smelling enough to kill someone").