đói meo

Vietnamese

Etymology

đói (“hungry”) +‎ meo; it is not clear if the second morpheme is really meo (“mold”) or not, although this word certainly influenced the creation of đói mốc đói meo.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔj˧˦ mɛw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔj˨˩˦ mɛw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔj˦˥ mɛw˧˧]

Adjective

đói meo

1. (colloquial) very hungry; starving

Derived terms

• đói mốc đói meo