"mếu máo" meaning in Vietnamese

{
  "etymology_text": "From mếu.",
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    {
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        "1": "vi",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "mếu máo",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "mếu máo",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "mếu máo"
      },
      "expansion": "mếu máo",
      "name": "vi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Many people could not contain their tears at the two children wearing mismatched clothes, mouths twisted due to crying for their father while lonesomely walking behind the coffin.",
          "ref": "2016, Trầm Hương, Trong cơn lốc xoáy, part I, NXB Phụ nữ, page 42:",
          "text": "Nhiều người không cầm nổi nước mắt trước hai đứa trẻ mặc áo xô, vừa mếu máo khóc gọi cha, vừa lủi thủi đi sau quan tài.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to twist one's mouth as one cries or before one is about to cry"
      ],
      "id": "en-mếu_máo-vi-verb-nay1N7Me",
      "links": [
        [
          "twist",
          "twist"
        ],
        [
          "mouth",
          "mouth"
        ],
        [
          "cries",
          "cries"
        ],
        [
          "cry",
          "cry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[mew˧˦ maːw˧˦]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mew˨˩˦ maːw˨˩˦]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mew˦˥ maːw˦˥]",
      "note": "Saigon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mếu máo"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From mếu.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "mếu máo",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "mếu máo",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "mếu máo"
      },
      "expansion": "mếu máo",
      "name": "vi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Vietnamese lemmas",
        "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Vietnamese terms with quotations",
        "Vietnamese verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Many people could not contain their tears at the two children wearing mismatched clothes, mouths twisted due to crying for their father while lonesomely walking behind the coffin.",
          "ref": "2016, Trầm Hương, Trong cơn lốc xoáy, part I, NXB Phụ nữ, page 42:",
          "text": "Nhiều người không cầm nổi nước mắt trước hai đứa trẻ mặc áo xô, vừa mếu máo khóc gọi cha, vừa lủi thủi đi sau quan tài.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to twist one's mouth as one cries or before one is about to cry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "twist",
          "twist"
        ],
        [
          "mouth",
          "mouth"
        ],
        [
          "cries",
          "cries"
        ],
        [
          "cry",
          "cry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[mew˧˦ maːw˧˦]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mew˨˩˦ maːw˨˩˦]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mew˦˥ maːw˦˥]",
      "note": "Saigon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mếu máo"
}