đút tỏm
Definition
- Verb (informal):
- To stuff into the mouth: To put food into one's own or someone else's mouth, often in a quick, eager, or greedy manner, implying a large or hasty mouthful.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Đứa bé đói quá, đút tỏm cả cái bánh. (The child was so hungry, he stuffed the whole cake into his mouth.)
- Cô ấy đút tỏm mấy viên kẹo rồi chạy đi chơi. (She popped a few candies into her mouth and ran off to play.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is onomatopoeic and vivid, with "tỏm" mimicking the sound or action of something being engulfed. It often carries a connotation of eating with gusto, without ceremony, or sometimes greedily.
Variants and Related Words
Đút (v): to feed, to put into. A more general and neutral term for putting food into a mouth.
- Mẹ đút cơm cho em bé. (The mother feeds the baby.)
Ăn ngấu nghiến (v): to wolf down, to devour greedily. A close synonym describing the manner of eating rather than the specific action of putting food in.
- Nó ăn ngấu nghiến bát mì. (He wolfed down the bowl of noodles.)
Synonyms
- To gobble: to eat quickly and greedily.
- To shove into one's mouth: to put food into the mouth hastily.
- To pop into one's mouth: to put something, especially something small, into the mouth quickly.
Related Idioms
- While "đút tỏm" itself is an informal, figurative expression, it is related to the imagery of:
- Ăn như hổ đói: to eat like a starving tiger (to eat very greedily).
- Sau buổi tập, lũ trẻ ăn như hổ đói. (After practice, the kids ate like starving tigers.)