máy móc

Vietnamese

Etymology

Originally máy (“to touch; to move”) +‎ móc (“to draw out; to pull out”), probably with the intended meaning being "to fiddle with, to mess around with"; now used chiefly as collective noun of máy (“machine”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maj˧˦ mawk͡p̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [maj˨˩˦ mawk͡p̚˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ma(ː)j˦˥ mawk͡p̚˦˥]

Noun

(collective) machines; machinery

Adjective

(disapproving, of people or the way they do things) that follows rules or guidelines uncritically; mechanical, artificial, stiff, inflexible, etc.

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