muỗm

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [muəm˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [muəm˧˨]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [muəm˨˩˦]

(classifier con) muỗm

1. katydid, bush-cricket

   Synonyms: muồm muỗm, bọ muỗm, giọt sành, vạc sành

   • 2017, H.T., "Thềm nhà có nắng (The Veranda's Floor with Sunshine)", Báo Giao Thông (Transportation and Traffic Newspaper)

     Cánh đồng cả tuổi thơ cô in hằn biết bao kỷ niệm, từ những ngày mùa gặt theo chân mẹ ra đồng bắt những con muỗm béo ngậy nướng ăn, chờ những đống lúa tuốt xong là nhảy lên đống rơm mới thơm nức lăn lộn cùng lũ trẻ.

     The fields of her whole childhood were deeply imprinted with, who knows, how many memories: from those days in harvest times when she followed her mother's footsteps out into those fields to catch, roast, and eat plump, fatty bush-crickets; when she waited for the exact moment when the freshly-threshed rice-stalks had just been turned into heaps of fragrant straws for her to jump on and roll in along with other children.

(classifier cây, trái, quả) muỗm • (檬)

1. Mangifera foetida, a species of flowering plants in the Mangifera (mango genus).

   Synonym: xoài hôi

Most likely from muỗng, with progressive nasal assimilation /m-ŋ/ > /m-m/.

(classifier cái) muỗm

1. (certain dialects of Northern Vietnam) spoon