Definition

1. Adjective:
   • All, everything, the whole lot: An emphatic and colloquial term meaning absolutely everything, leaving nothing out. It stresses completeness and totality, often with a sense of finality or thoroughness.
   • Entirely, completely: Used to describe a situation where something is taken, gone, or done in its full extent without exception.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Bọn trẻ ăn tuốt tuồn tuộc bánh kẹo trên bàn. (The children ate all of the candy on the table.)
  • Nó kể tuốt tuồn tuộc bí mật cho bạn nghe. (He told his friend the entire secret, every last bit.)
  • Sau trận lụt, đồ đạc bị cuốn đi tuốt tuồn tuộc. (After the flood, the belongings were swept away completely.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used for dramatic or humorous effect in informal speech to exaggerate the totality of an action.
• Can imply a slight sense of surprise, recklessness, or thoroughness in the action of taking or revealing everything.

Variants and Related Words

• Tuốt tuộc (adj): A slightly shortened, synonymous form with the same meaning of "all, everything."
  • Tôi đã đọc tuốt tuộc sách của ông ấy. (I have read all of his books.)

Synonyms

• Tất cả: all, everything (standard, less emphatic).
• Toàn bộ: the whole, the entirety.
• Hết sạch: all gone, completely finished.

Related Idioms

• Ăn tuốt tuồn tuộc: to eat everything in sight.

  • Con mèo đói ăn tuốt tuồn tuộc thức ăn trong bát. (The hungry cat ate every last bit of food in the bowl.)

• Khai tuốt tuồn tuộc: to confess everything, to spill all the beans.

  • Trước cảnh sát, nghi phạm đã khai tuốt tuồn tuộc. (Before the police, the suspect confessed to everything.)