buông tuồng

Vietnamese

Etymology

From buông, perhaps a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 放縱 (SV: phóng túng).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˧˧ tuəŋ˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˧˧ tuəŋ˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˧˧ tuəŋ˨˩]

Adjective

buông tuồng

  1. unrestrained; undisciplined; unruly; self-indulgent