cáo

Từ điển Việt Anh (Vietnamese English Dictionary)

noun
Royal edict-like announcement
Nguyễn Trãi viết bài cáo bình Ngô Nguyen Trai wrote the edict-like announcement about the defeat of the feudal Chinese invaders
Fox
cáo bắt gà foxes catch fowls
bọn thựcdân cáo già the foxy colonialists
mèo già hoá cáo at length the cat turns fox; no man is his craft's master first day; use makes mastery; practice makes perfect
verb
To submit (to mandarin)
To pretext, to invoke as excuse
cáo ốm không dự hội nghị

	[cáo]
	danh từ
		Royal edict-like announcement
			Nguyễn Trãi viết bài cáo bình Ngô
			Nguyen Trai wrote the edict-like announcement about the defeat of the feudal Chinese invaders
		proclamation (bài cáo)
		Fox
			cáo bắt gà
			foxes catch fowls
			bọn thực dân cáo già
			the foxy colonialists
			cáo già
			old fox
		mèo già hoá cáo
			at length the cat turns fox; no man is his craft's master first day; use makes mastery; practice makes perfect
	động từ
		To submit (to mandarin)
		To pretext, to invoke as excuse, feign
			cáo ốm
			to pretext illness, feign to be sick/ill, to sham Abraham
			cúng cáo
			to commemorate a death anniversary on its eve
	tính từ
		be foxy, sly, clever, crafty
			cáo mượn oai hùm
			pretending to have power of one's superiors