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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Most likely a free noun developed from người ngợm through rebracketing (see below). Various Vietnamese dictionaries try to define this element as if it was a free noun, but inexact semantics and inconsistency between them suggest that this was originally a product of reduplication.
Noun
(classifier con) ngợm
- being that looks like a human but lacks basic human decency
2011, Phan Đăng, quoting Lê Thụy Hải, “Lại bàn về ông "vua" sân cỏ”, in Công an nhân dân online:Vậy chúng tôi không phải là con người, chúng tôi là con ngợm chăng?- Does that mean we aren't human, that we're brainless brutes or what?
2017, Phan Cuồng, Lý triều dị truyện, →ISBN:Nguyên là ngợm Lách Cách vốn có tục thờ thần Xương Cuồng.- Originally, the Clatter savages had the custom of worshipping the god Xương Cuồng.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
ngợm • (𤼔)
- reduplicant of người, only used in người ngợm
- reduplicant of nghịch, only used in nghịch ngợm