Definition

1. Verb:

   • To pluck off, to pull off, to strip off: The action of gripping something tightly and sliding one's hand along its length to remove something attached to it, such as grains from a stalk.
   • To draw, to unsheathe: The action of pulling out a long object, typically a weapon, from its sheath or container in a swift, forceful motion.
   • To go straight to, to go all the way to: To move directly and without stopping to a distant or final point.

2. Adverb:

   • All, entirely, the whole lot: Used to emphasize that an action applies to every single item or person in a group without exception.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Bà ngoại đang tuốt đỗ xanh để nấu chè. (Grandma is plucking green beans to make sweet soup.)
  • Hiệp sĩ tuốt gươm ra khỏi vỏ. (The knight drew his sword from its scabbard.)
  • Con mèo tuốt một mạch lên ngọn cây. (The cat scampered straight up to the top of the tree.)

• Adverb:

  • Nó ăn tuốt cả mấy cái bánh. (He ate all of the cakes.)
  • Cô ấy biết tuốt mọi chuyện. (She knows absolutely everything.)

Advanced Usage

• "tuốt tuồn tuột": An emphatic reduplicative form meaning "completely all," "every single bit," or "lock, stock, and barrel." It strengthens the meaning of "tuốt."

  • Lũ trẻ ăn tuốt tuồn tuột đĩa kẹo. (The children ate every last bit of the candy on the plate.)

• "tuốt cả": A common collocation meaning "all of," "the entirety of."

  • Anh ta lấy tuốt cả tiền trong ví. (He took all the money in the wallet.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tuốt lúa (verb phrase): To strip rice grains from the stalk.
• Tuốt gươm (verb phrase): To draw a sword.
• Tuốt (as a standalone adverb): Often used colloquially for emphasis.

Synonyms

• Verb: Giật (to yank, pull), rút (to pull out, draw), hái (to pick - for fruits/flowers, not sliding action).
• Adverb: Tất cả (all), toàn bộ (the whole), hết (all, finished).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Tuốt ra: To pull out, to draw out.
  • Anh ta tuốt ra một con dao. (He pulled out a knife.)

Related Idioms

• Biết tuốt: To know it all; used to describe someone who acts like they know everything.

  • Đừng có làm ra vẻ biết tuốt như thế! (Don't act like you know it all like that!)

• Lấy tuốt: To take everything; to take the whole lot.

  • Kẻ trộm đã lấy tuốt đồ trang sức. (The thief took all the jewelry.)

verb

1. to pluck off, to pull off to draw