đụp

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Chiếc áo bà ba cũ kỹ ấy đã bị đụp nhiều chỗ.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Patch upon patch; heavily patched: Describes an item, typically clothing or fabric, that has been mended repeatedly with many overlapping patches.
   • (Archaic, figurative) Stuck at a level; repeatedly failing to advance: Historically used to describe a scholar who repeatedly passed only the preliminary exams (junior bachelor) without achieving a higher degree.
   • Brazen-faced; shameless: Used as a colloquial and derogatory term to describe a person with thick skin or audacious impudence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cái áo đụp. (A heavily patched jacket.)
  • Hắn là một nhà nho đụp, thi mãi không lên nổi cử nhân. (He was a scholar stuck at the junior level, failing repeatedly to become a senior bachelor.)
  • Cái thằng mặt đụp! (What a brazen-faced guy!)

Advanced Usage

• The term is now considered old-fashioned. The meaning related to patching is largely literal and descriptive. The figurative meanings (academic failure, shamelessness) are archaic and rarely used in modern standard Vietnamese, though they may be encountered in literature or regional speech.

Variants and Related Words

• Đụp đáp (adj): An intensified form emphasizing something being patched together haphazardly or in a sloppy, layered manner.

Synonyms

• Patched: Mended with pieces of material.
• Shameless: Lacking modesty or decency.
• Stagnant: Not advancing or progressing.

Related Idioms

• Mặt đụp: A fixed colloquial phrase meaning "brazen-faced" or "shameless."
  • Đồ mặt đụp! (You shameless person!)

Học thuật

1. Patch over again
   • Cái áo đụp
     A jacket with patches sewn on patches.
2. (cũ) Graduate as junior bacherlor many times
3. Brazen faced
   • Cái thằng mặt đụp!
     What a brazen-faced type!