đọi

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with Arem /tuəjˀ/.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) đọi

  1. (Central Vietnam, dialectal) Synonym of bát (small bowl for eating rice)
    ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời
    terribly incompetent
    (literally, “cannot adequately eat a bowl of rice or say a comprehensible sentence”)