đi ngoài
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]đi (“to go”) + ngoài (“outside”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗi˧˧ ŋwaːj˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɪj˧˧ ŋwaːj˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɪj˧˧ ŋwaːj˨˩]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Verb
[edit]- (euphemistic) to do number two; to relieve oneself; to move one's bowels
- Synonym: đi tiêu
- đi ngoài ra nước
- to go to the bathroom and pass loose stools, i.e. to have diarrhoea
[Note: this may be a pun on đi ra nước ngoài (“to go abroad”)]
- to go to the bathroom and pass loose stools, i.e. to have diarrhoea