đểu

Vietnamese

Etymology

Trần (2004) (apud Vương, 2021) proposes that đểu initially meant a "porter using carrying pole"; both đểu and đểu cáng (“porters”) (compound of đểu & cáng (“palanquin > palanquin-porter”)) now denotes "scoundrel, cad" because poorly-educated porters often dealt unfairly with each other and competed with each other for customers by means of violence and cheating.[1]

Compare also 鳥 (MC tewX) > Sino-Vinamese điểu.

Pronunciation

Adjective

đểu • (搗, 𢞬)

  1. (vulgar) ill-bred; unmannerly; caddish

Derived terms
Derived terms

References
  1. Vương Trung Hiếu (2021) "Lắt léo chữ nghĩa: ‘Đểu cáng’ và ‘cửu vạn’ (Convolution about Words and Meanings)" Báo Thanh Niên Thanh Niên (Youth Newspaper). In Vietnamese
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