queo

Thân thiện

Cành cây bị gió thổi hơi queo.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Bent; Twisted; Crooked: Describes an object that is not straight, having a curved or angled form, often due to natural growth or external force.
   • Contorted; Shrivelled: Describes something, often organic, that has become dried up, wrinkled, or tightly curled.

2. Adverb:

   • In a curled-up or hunched position: Describes the manner of lying or sitting with the body tightly folded or coiled.
   • In a distorted manner: Describes how something, like a story or fact, is twisted or misrepresented.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cái cây mọc queo. (The tree grows crooked.)
  • Lá khô queo. (The leaf is dried and shrivelled.)
• Adverb:
  • Đứa bé nằm queo trên giường. (The child lay curled up on the bed.)
  • Họ bẻ queo sự thật. (They twisted the truth.)

Advanced Usage

• "chết queo": to be dead and shrivelled; often used figuratively to describe something that has failed completely or become lifeless.
  • Kế hoạch đó chết queo từ lâu. (That plan died a shrivelled death long ago.)
• "khô queo": to be completely dry and shrivelled.
  • Con suối mùa hè khô queo. (The stream in summer is completely dry and parched.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bẻ queo (verb phrase): to bend something until it's crooked; to distort or twist (a story, the truth).
  • Đừng bẻ queo ý nghĩa của tôi. (Don't twist my meaning.)

Synonyms

• Bent: curved and not straight.
• Twisted: forced out of its natural shape.
• Contorted: twisted or bent into an unnatural shape.
• Shrivelled: wrinkled and contracted due to loss of moisture.

Related Idioms

• Queo cẳng: (literally: crooked leg) can imply a physical defect or, figuratively, an unfair hindrance or disadvantage.
  • Luật mới này khiến doanh nghiệp nhỏ queo cẳng. (This new law puts small businesses at a crooked-leg disadvantage.)
• Nói queo: to speak in a twisted or evasive manner.
  • Anh ta cứ nói queo, không vào thẳng vấn đề. (He keeps speaking evasively, not getting to the point.)

Học thuật

adj

1. Bent; twisted
   • đoạn tre queo
     a bent bamboo pipe distorited
   • bẻ queo câu chuyện
     to distort a story