thỏ đế

Vietnamese

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a jocular pseudo-Sino-Vietnamese coinage, from a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 兔帝 (“rabbit emperor”, SV: thố đế), from the notion of nhát như thỏ (“as cowardly as a rabbit”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰɔ˧˩ ʔɗe˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰɔ˧˨ ʔɗej˨˩˦]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰɔ˨˩˦ ʔɗej˦˥]

Noun

thỏ đế

  1. a scaredy-cat; a chicken
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