Definition

Noun: 1. Thigh: The part of the human leg between the hip and the knee. 2. Leg (of an animal): The upper part of the leg of an animal, especially when used as food (e.g., chicken leg, ham).

Usage Examples

• (She has pain in her thigh after the workout session.)
• (He bought two fried chicken legs.)
• (The child sat on her mother's lap (lit., thigh).)

Advanced Usage

• "nở đùi": (colloquial, often considered vulgar) To give birth.
  • Nghe nói cô ấy sắp nở đùi. (I heard she is about to give birth.)
• "đùi ếch": Frog legs (a dish).
  • Nhà hàng này có món đùi ếch chiên bơ rất ngon. (This restaurant has delicious butter-fried frog legs.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bắp đùi (n): The fleshy part of the thigh; the thigh muscle.
  • Anh ấy có bắp đùi rất săn chắc. (He has very firm thigh muscles.)
• Đùi giò (n): Pork hock or ham (a cut of meat).
  • Món giò heo hầm thường dùng đùi giò. (Braised pork leg soup often uses pork hock.)

Synonyms

• Vế (n, literary/formal): Thigh.
  • Áo dài cách tân làm lộ vế. (The modernized áo dài reveals the thigh.)
• Bẹn (n): Groin (the area where the thigh meets the torso).

Related Phrases

• Chạy bó đùi: (idiom) To run so much that one's thighs feel tight/bound; to run oneself ragged.
  • Làm dự án này tôi chạy bó đùi. (Working on this project, I've been running myself ragged.)
• Kề đùi: (idiom, from Sino-Vietnamese) To sit thigh-to-thigh; to be very close or intimate.
  • Họ là đôi bạn kề đùi từ thuở nhỏ. (They have been close friends since childhood.)

Notes on Different Meanings

• The primary meaning refers to the anatomical part of the body.
• When referring to food, it specifically means the meaty upper leg portion of animals (poultry, livestock).
• In the compound "dao đùi" (dialectal), it functions as an adjective meaning "dull" or "blunt," but this usage is rare and regional. The standalone word "đùi" is almost exclusively a noun.

noun

1. thigh