đéo
See also: Appendix:Variations of "deo"
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 屌 (diu2), otherwise a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鳥 (SV: điểu). Compare đểu. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˨˩˦]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˦˥]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Verb
đéo • (吊, 𦛉, 鳥, 㨶, 𡡅, 𠴼) (colloquial, vulgar)
- (ambitransitive, dated) to have penetrative sex (with); to copulate
- (transitive) fuck (used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something)
- Đéo con mẹ mày!
- Fuck you!
- 1909, Henri Oger, edited by Olivier Tessier and Philippe Le Failler, Technique du peuple Annamite [Mechanics and Crafts of the Annamites], Nhã Nam; Thế Giới; Thư viện thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, published 2009, page 531:
𠴼 媄 吒 𠀲 𱜢 扵 𥪝 丐 茄 尼 - Fuck anyone who is in this house.
Adverb
đéo • (吊, 𦛉, 鳥, 㨶, 𡡅, 𠴼) (colloquial)
- Negates the meaning of the modified verb: not, like fuck
- Tao đéo cần biết!
- Like fuck I care!
- Tao tên Tuyền, đéo phải Tiền.
- My name is Tuyền, like fuck it’s Tiền (meaning money).
- not (to no degree)
- Đéo phải tao!
- Not me!
Synonyms
- (negating a verb, to no degree): không
Usage notes
- In contrast to không, this term is not used to modify an adjective.
Interjection
References
- Nguyễn Quang Hồng (2014) “đéo”, in Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải [Nôm Characters with Quotations and Annotations][1] (in Vietnamese), via Nomfoundation.org