đá lông nheo

Vietnamese

Etymology

đá (“to kick”) +‎ lông nheo (“eyelash”), roughly something like "to do a strike with the eyelashes".

Semantically, compare Finnish iskeä silmää, Japanese 瞬く (matataku), Tok Pisin brukim ai.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˧˦ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˨˩˦ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˦˥ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]

Verb

đá lông nheo

(colloquial) to wink
Synonym: nháy mắt

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