trọc lóc
Definition
- Adjective:
- Completely bald or shaven: Describes a head that is shaved so cleanly that the skin is fully exposed, with no visible hair stubble.
- Bare or barren: Can describe something that is utterly bare, stripped, or devoid of covering, often in a stark or conspicuous way.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Ông cụ cạo đầu trọc lóc. (The old man shaved his head completely bald.)
- Sau trận cháy rừng, ngọn đồi trọc lóc. (After the forest fire, the hill was utterly barren.)
- Thằng bé tóc bị cắt trọc lóc. (The boy's hair was cut to the point of being completely shorn.)
Advanced Usage
- The term often carries a connotation of starkness, smoothness, or being stripped clean to an extreme degree, beyond just being bald ("hói"). It emphasizes the complete absence of any covering.
Variants and Related Words
- Trọc (adj): Bald, bare. A shorter, more common form.
- Đầu trọc. (A bald head.)
- Trọc lốc (adj): A variant form with identical meaning to "trọc lóc."
- Trọc tếch (adj): Synonym meaning completely bald or bare.
Synonyms
- Bald: Lacking hair on the head.
- Shaven: Having hair removed by shaving.
- Barren: Lacking vegetation; bare.
- Bare: Without covering or contents.
Related Idioms
- While "trọc lóc" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, its imagery is used descriptively to emphasize total lack or exposure.
- Cạo trọc lóc: To shave completely bald. This is a common collocation.