rớt dãi
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Definition
- Verb phrase:
- To have saliva dripping from one's mouth: Describes the action of saliva unintentionally flowing out of the mouth, often associated with babies, sleeping individuals, or when seeing very appetizing food.
- To drool, to slobber: The primary meaning is the involuntary act of saliva escaping the mouth.
Usage Examples
- Verb phrase:
- Em bé đang ngủ và rớt dãi. (The baby is sleeping and drooling.)
- Nhìn món ăn ngon, anh ấy suýt rớt dãi. (Looking at the delicious food, he almost drooled.)
- Cô lấy khăn lau rớt dãi cho con. (She used a cloth to wipe the drool from her child.)
Advanced Usage
- "rớt dãi vì thèm thuồng": to drool out of desire/craving.
- Cậu bé rớt dãi vì thèm thuồng khi nhìn thấy chiếc bánh. (The boy drooled with craving when he saw the cake.)
- Used figuratively to express intense desire or envy.
- Nghe kể về chuyến du lịch, tôi muốn rớt dãi. (Listening to the travel story, I was drooling with envy/desire.)
Variants and Related Words
- Chảy dãi (verb phrase): A more common synonym meaning "to drool."
- Con chó chảy dãi khi ngửi thấy mùi thịt. (The dog drooled when it smelled the meat.)
- Dãi (noun): Saliva, spittle.
- Lau dãi cho bé. (Wipe the baby's saliva.)
- Nước dãi (noun): Saliva (more formal than "dãi").
- Nuốt nước dãi. (To swallow one's saliva.)
Synonyms
- Chảy nước miếng: To have saliva/mouth water flowing.
- Chảy nước bọt: To have spit/saliva flowing. (Note: "nước bọt" is slightly more clinical than "nước dãi" or "dãi").
Related Idioms
- "Thèm rớt dãi" / "Thèm chảy dãi": To crave something so much that one drools; to desire intensely.
- Tôi thèm rớt dãi món bánh mì thịt nướng đó. (I'm drooling for that grilled pork sandwich.)
- While not a phrasal verb, the phrase is often used with "vì" (because of) to indicate the cause of the drooling.
- Rớt dãi vì ngon. (To drool because [the food] is delicious.)
- Dripping saliva
- Lấy khăn tay lau rớt dãi cho em béTo wipe the baby's dripping saliva with a handkerchief