đá lông nheo

Vietnamese

Etymology

đá (“to kick”) +‎ lông nheo (“eyelash”), roughly something like "to do a strike with the eyelashes".

Semantically, compare Finnish iskeä silmää, Japanese 瞬く (matataku), Tok Pisin brukim ai.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗaː˧˦ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗaː˨˩˦ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗaː˦˥ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]

Verb

đá lông nheo

  1. (colloquial) to wink
    Synonym: nháy mắt
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