tanh tưởi
Definition
- Adjective:
- Strongly and unpleasantly fishy: Describes a powerful, offensive smell characteristic of raw fish, seafood, or decaying aquatic matter.
- Rank or pungent (of a fishy smell): Refers specifically to the sharp, penetrating odor associated with fish, often perceived as stale or unpleasant.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Cá để lâu có mùi tanh tưởi. (Fish left out for a long time has a strongly fishy smell.)
- Căn phòng đầy mùi tanh tưởi từ lưới đánh cá. (The room was full of the rank fishy smell from the fishing nets.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to intensify the basic adjective "tanh" (fishy), emphasizing a more potent, stale, or overwhelming quality of the odor.
- Không khí sau cơn mưa đôi khi mang theo mùi tanh tưởi từ sông. (The air after the rain sometimes carries a pungent fishy smell from the river.)
Variants and Related Words
- Tanh (adj): Fishy; having the smell of fish. This is the root word.
- Mùi tanh của cá sống. (The fishy smell of raw fish.)
Synonyms
- Fishy: Smelling of fish.
- Rank: Having a strong, unpleasant smell.
- Pungent: Having a sharply strong taste or smell.
Related Idioms
- Tanh như cá biển: As fishy as sea fish; used to describe something with an extremely strong fishy odor.
- Cái ao này tanh như cá biển. (This pond is as fishy as sea fish.)