trọc tếu
Definition
- Adjective:
- Completely shaved / Bald as a cue ball: Describes a head that is shaved completely smooth and bare, often with a humorous or playful connotation.
- Cheekily bald: Can imply a bald or shaven head that looks impish, cheeky, or amusingly bare.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Thằng bé cạo đầu trọc tếu. (The boy shaved his head completely smooth.)
- Ông cụ có cái đầu trọc tếu trông rất vui tính. (The old man has a cheekily bald head that looks very jovial.)
Advanced Usage
- The term often carries a lighthearted, descriptive, and slightly humorous tone rather than a purely clinical description of baldness.
Variants and Related Words
Trọc (adj): bald, shorn.
- Đầu trọc (bald head).
Hói (adj): balding (due to hair loss).
- Bị hói (to be going bald).
Synonyms
- Shiny bald: completely hairless and smooth.
- Clean-shaven (head): having all hair removed by shaving.
- Bare: lacking hair covering.
Related Idioms
- Đầu trọc tếu: a phrase emphasizing the described state of the head.
- Cái đầu trọc tếu của nó khiến ai cũng buồn cười. (Its cheekily bald head makes everyone laugh.)