交通遺児 [こうつういじ] (koutsuuiji)
child orphaned from a traffic accident
Huh. Came across this while studying today. I think one thing that is really interesting about Japanese is how the language can easily form “words” for things we in English would require a whole phrase for. An interesting thing, although is that the German language does this as well, although using the Roman alphabet we employ in English. If I remember correctly from my High School German class, a “Sunday afternoon walk” is Sonntagsnachmittagsweg. Interesting how languages can do so many similar things while being nothing alike.
This one comes in honor of my recently married friend over at tQ Studios.
粗大塵 [そだいごみ] [sodaigomi] (1) oversize garbage, bulky rubbish, (2) (slang for) husband
I still love getting slang out of the dictionary because you know that it will be the bleeding edge of wit and timeliness when you unleash this hot nihongo all over someone’s face. On the plus side I get to learn large complex words that people tell me I’ll never need to know. I’m still not sure why I’ll never need to know some words if I want to be fluent in a language, but maybe they are just being nice since I still sound slightly retarded when speaking Japanese.
出っ尻 [でっちり] (detchiri) protruding buttocks, big butt
I have never heard this term used but I have to wonder if it is because it is because it is not a commonly used term or Japan’s lack of big booty babes.
ダッチワイフ [datchiwaifu] (1) life-sized doll used for masturbation (trans: Dutch wife), (2) cage (rattan or cane) used in bed in the tropics, (3) bolster used for warmth when sleeping
I think I can get enough for this weekly segment just by searching for in the dictionary for the word “use”.
Japan is infamously known for a few things, one that may have slipped past your radar is the love pillow. Whether or not this lady of the Netherlands falls into the pillow category or not I cannot quite say. What I can say, though, is that one walk through a sex shop in Japan should really open one’s eyes into what sexuality really can be.
ガム (gamu) chewing gum.
ゴム (gomu) gum, rubber, (2) (abbr) eraser, (3) (sl) condom.
The second word ゴム has a closer pronunciation to the one I’m used to for chewing gum. Interestingly enough the word for chewing gum in Japanese uses a different pronunciation. Similar to how we English speakers may call a condom a rubber, the Japanese word for rubber is used as slang for condom as well.
Needless to say, I have confused the two words and asked the girlfriend for a condom while she is holding a pack of gum.
尼 [あま] (ama) (1) (col) nun, (2) (derog) bitch.
I really question where some of these definitions I find in EDict come from. I don’t doubt that they at one point were used, hell they could be common for all the fuck I know. It’s just some of the stuff I find while poking around really makes me scratch my head.
音姫 [おとひめ] (otohime)
noun
Melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds.
遣り逃げ [やりにげ] (yarinige) having sex with a woman and then breaking off contact with her (esp. after telling her that you love her), wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, hit it and quit it, fuck and chuck
I love the things I find in the dictionary by accident.
本番 [ほんばん] [honban]
(1) performance, take, going before an audience or on-air
(2) game, season, crucial moment
(3) actual sexual intercourse (i.e. not simulated).
神経衰弱 [しんけいすいじゃく] (shinkeisuijaku)
(1) neurasthenia, nervous breakdown
(2) concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)
