phỉnh
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Verb:
- To blandish; to coax; to sweet-talk: To use flattering or pleasing words to deceive someone, to persuade someone to do something or to believe something false.
- To lure; to entice: To attract or tempt someone by making false promises or using deception.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Đừng để họ phỉnh bạn bằng những lời đường mật. (Don't let them coax you with sweet talk.)
- Hắn ta phỉnh nộp tiền rồi bỏ trốn. (He lured [them] into handing over money and then ran away.)
- Cô ấy không dễ bị phỉnh. (She is not easily deceived by flattery.)
Advanced Usage
- "phỉnh phờ": A variant often used for emphasis, meaning to coax or deceive with persistent sweet talk.
- Tôi đã bị hắn phỉnh phờ mất một khoản tiền lớn. (I was swindled/conned out of a large sum of money by him.)
- "phỉnh gạt": To cheat or swindle through coaxing and deception.
- Bọn lừa đảo chuyên dùng chiêu phỉnh gạt người già. (Scammers often use tricks to swindle the elderly.)
Variants and Related Words
- Dỗ (v): To coax, to cajole (can be neutral or positive, like coaxing a child, and less negative than ).
- Nịnh (v): To flatter, to adulate (focuses on the act of flattery itself, which is a key component of ).
- Lừa phỉnh (v): To deceive through coaxing and trickery.
- Lừa dối (v): To deceive, to cheat (a more general term for deception).
Synonyms
- Lừa gạt: To cheat, to swindle.
- Dụ dỗ: To entice, to seduce (into doing something).
- Tán tỉnh: To flirt, to court (can involve sweet talk but with romantic intent).
Related Phrases (Collocations)
- Phỉnh nịnh: To flatter and coax (combining and for emphasis).
- Hắn chỉ giỏi nghề phỉnh nịnh. (He's only good at the art of flattery and deception.)
- Bị phỉnh: To be coaxed/deceived.
- Cậu ấy non nớt nên dễ bị phỉnh. (He is naive so he is easily deceived.)
Related Idioms
- Phỉnh lừa thế gian: To deceive the world (a literary expression for large-scale deception).
- Trò phỉnh lừa thế gian của tên trùm lừa đảo cuối cùng cũng bị bại lộ. (The scam kingpin's grand deception of the world was finally exposed.)
- Mồi phỉnh: Bait used for coaxing/deceiving.
- Những lời hứa viển vông đó chỉ là mồi phỉnh. (Those empty promises are just deceptive bait.)
- Blandish; coax
- Phỉnh ai làm việc gìTo coax someone into doing something