Definition

1. Verb:
   • To frolic amorously, to flirt playfully: To engage in lighthearted, playful, and often mildly flirtatious behavior, typically in a carefree or unserious manner.
   • To fool around, to mess about: To act in a silly, unserious, or time-wasting way, often with a connotation of immaturity or impropriety.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Mấy đứa thanh niên đang đú đởn ngoài sân. (The young people are frolicking/flirting playfully in the yard.)
  • Đừng có đú đởn, tập trung vào công việc đi. (Stop fooling around, focus on your work.)
  • Nó chỉ thích đú đởn chứ chẳng lo học hành. (He just likes to mess about and doesn't care about studying.)

Advanced Usage

• The word often carries a slightly negative or disapproving tone, implying the behavior is frivolous, immature, or not appropriate for the situation or the person's age/status.
• It can describe behavior that is excessively playful to the point of being distracting or annoying.

Variants and Related Words

• Đú đa đú đởn (reduplicative form, intensifying meaning): To frolic or flirt even more playfully and obviously.
  • Ranh con mà đã đú đa đú đởn. (Only a chit of a girl and already she frolics amorously.)
• Đún đởn (variant): A less common variant with the same meaning.

Synonyms

• Nghịch ngợm: To be mischievous, to play pranks (less focused on the amorous aspect).
• Tán tỉnh: To flirt, to court (more directly romantic than "đú đởn").
• Đùa giỡn: To joke around, to play (general, without the specific connotation of amorously frolicking).

Related Phrases/Idioms

• Ăn nói đú đởn: To speak in a frivolous, flippant, or unserious manner.
  • Đừng ăn nói đú đởn trong cuộc họp quan trọng. (Don't speak flippantly in an important meeting.)

1. Frolic amorously
2. Đú đa đú đởn (láy, ý tăng)
   • Ranh con mà đã đú đa đú đởn
     Only a chit of a girl and alrealy she frolics amorously