đói meo

Tôi đói meo đến nỗi bụng sôi lên.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely hungry, famished: A colloquial and emphatic term describing a state of intense hunger, often to the point of discomfort. The word "meo" is an intensifier that adds emphasis, similar to "terribly" or "awfully."

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Tôi đói meo rồi, chúng ta ăn trưa đi. (I'm terribly hungry, let's have lunch.)
  • Cả ngày chưa ăn gì, bụng nó đói meo. (Having eaten nothing all day, his stomach is famished.)
  • Lũ trẻ đi học về là đói meo. (The children come home from school starving.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase is informal and commonly used in spoken Vietnamese. It conveys a stronger feeling than just "đói" (hungry).

Variants and Related Words

• Đói (adj): hungry.

  • Tôi đói. (I am hungry.)

• Đói bụng (adj): hungry (focusing on the stomach).

  • Nghe mùi thức ăn, tôi đói bụng. (Smelling the food made me hungry.)

Synonyms

• Famished: suffering from extreme hunger.
• Starving: suffering or dying from hunger (often used informally to mean very hungry).
• Ravenous: extremely hungry.

Related Idioms

• Đói đến chóng mặt: so hungry one feels dizzy.
  • Làm việc quá giờ, tôi đói đến chóng mặt. (Working overtime, I'm so hungry I feel dizzy.)