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[Bozo Yoroshiku]

Is there a Japanese expression that has the same meaning of "You're chicken (flap arms) bock bock bock!" ie. meaning "you have no balls, you chickens--t!" (eg. guy won't approach a woman he likes cause he is chicken).

I'm not really looking at okubyo-, which is more "timid" and not really "lack of confidence to the point of cowardice".

Is there such an expression? I'm sure I recall there being something out there, but can't put my finger on it.


--boz

[Tom Highway]

Konjo nashi?

[Tom Highway]

Or "Make inu" (lit: "lost dog") can have a similar meaning I think.

[Zzonkmiles]

"hetare" pretty much means "wimp" or "coward," but that might be Osaka-ben

[Brooks]

yowamushi

[Zzonkmiles]

[Doglover]

[Tom Highway]

Damn! That's pretty harsh! I thought "over the hill" was bad enough but " lost dog"?

I'm up in Tohoku and have heard Makeinu to mean "milquetoast" or a weak, indecisive person. I think. There's some idiom up here which is along the lines of "No one listens to the cries of a lost dog".

[Doglover]

I found this too, which suggests make-inu is a "loser".

[Tom Highway]

I stand corrected.

[kdynamic]

I think your best bet by far is yowamushi