Definition

1. Adverb:
   • Describing the sound or manner of a large crowd moving together with heavy, rhythmic, and continuous footsteps: "rùng rùng" depicts the collective, rumbling, and often forceful sound or visual impression of a massive group of people (or sometimes vehicles) moving in unison, typically with a sense of momentum or purpose.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Đoàn biểu tình rùng rùng tiến về phía quảng trường. (The protestors streamed/advanced with a rumbling stampede towards the square.)
  • Người hâm mộ rùng rùng kéo đến sân vận động từ sáng sớm. (Fans poured in with a thunderous tread to the stadium from early morning.)
  • Tiếng động cơ rùng rùng vang lên trước khi đoàn xe xuất phát. (The engines roared/revved in a powerful, rumbling chorus before the convoy departed.)

Advanced Usage

• "rùng rùng rực rỡ": This is a common alliterative phrase combining "rùng rùng" with "rực rỡ" (brilliant, splendid). It describes a scene that is both vibrantly spectacular and teeming with energetic, massive movement.
  • Lễ hội với những đám rước rùng rùng rực rỡ. (The festival with vibrantly spectacular and massively streaming processions.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rầm rập (adverb): A close synonym, also describing the heavy, rhythmic sound of many footsteps or movements. It emphasizes the rhythmic, pounding quality.
  • Đội quân đi rầm rập. (The troops marched in a heavy, rhythmic tread.)
• Rùng rình (verb/adjective): Means to tremble, shake, or shiver (e.g., from cold or fear). It is related phonetically but has a different meaning focused on vibration or trembling of a single object or person, not collective movement.
  • Cô ấy rùng rình vì lạnh. (She shivered from the cold.)

Synonyms

• Ầm ầm (adverb): With a roaring, rumbling sound (can be for crowds, machines, thunder). It focuses more on the loud noise than the visual of movement.
• Ồ ạt (adverb): In a massive, surging, overwhelming wave. It emphasizes the sudden, forceful, and large-scale nature of the movement rather than the sound.

Related Phrases

• Kéo nhau rùng rùng: To stream or flock together in a massive, rumbling crowd. This is the most typical collocation.
  • Mọi người kéo nhau rùng rùng đi xem bắn pháo hoa. (People streamed in a massive, rumbling crowd to watch the fireworks.)

Related Idioms

• Rùng rùng chuyển động: To be in rumbling motion. This phrase explicitly connects the adverb to the concept of movement.
  • Cả một khối người rùng rùng chuyển động. (A whole mass of people was in rumbling motion.)

1. Stamping
   • Rùng rùng kéo nhau đi dự mít tinh
     They streamed with stamping noises to the demonstration