đầu gấu

Vietnamese

Etymology

đầu (“head”) +‎ gấu (“bear”), for the semantic relationship, compare maybe English berserk.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˨˩ ɣəw˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˦˩ ɣəw˨˩˦]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˨˩ ɣəw˦˥]

Noun

(classifier tên, đứa) đầu gấu

  1. thug; delinquent; bully
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