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˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˦˥ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]

Verb

đá lông nheo

1. (colloquial) to wink

   Synonym: nháy mắt