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ngắc ngư

speak haltingly
Verb
speak haltingly
1 senses 1 Components
Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 Verb
speak haltingly Core ActionsTheme

To speak haltingly means to talk with many pauses and hesitations because of nervousness or confusion.

vi Cậu bé trả lời một cách ngắc ngư trước lớp.

en The boy speaks haltingly in front of the class.

Parts
ngắc / 硌魚
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Components

Components

ngắc
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
硌魚
Candidates by syllable
ngắc 硌（𦝈） ngư 魚
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
ngắc ngứ / ngắc / ngắc ngoải / lý ngư …
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Easily confused

Same spelling, different tone
Starts with this word

ngắc/ngắc ngoải

Ends with this word

lý ngư/mộc ngư/kiểm ngư/sào ngư

Use
cứng ngắc / ngúc ngắc
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ngắc (stall) — words using
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