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Vietnamese
Etymology
From con gái (“daughter”) + rượu (“alcohol”), a simile allude to alcoholism especially common among Vietnamese men of older generation.
It is also possible that this is also a phono-semantic matching between rượu and diệu (“marvellous, wonderful”), the Sino-Vietnamese reading of 妙 (miào), as the two words are homophonous in many Northern dialects.
Pronunciation
Noun
con gái rượu
- (chiefly Northern Vietnam, of a father, humorous or endearing) a beloved daughter
Lại đây nào, con gái rượu của bố!- Come here, my little baby girl!