cuống quýt
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
-it reduplication of cuống.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kuəŋ˧˦ kwit̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kuəŋ˦˧˥ kwɨt̚˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kuəŋ˦˥ wɨt̚˦˥]
Verb
cuống quýt
- to lose one's head;[1] to be in an agitated hurry
- Mai cuống quýt tìm giấy thông hành khi qua biên giới.
- Mai frantically searched for her passport when crossing the border.
References
- Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995) “cuống quít”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 75
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