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Bozo Yoroshiku
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 Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: Quick Japanese vocab/slang question (OT) |
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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.
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Tom Highway
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Konjo nashi? |
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Tom Highway
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Or "Make inu" (lit: "lost dog") can have a similar meaning I think. |
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Zzonkmiles
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| "hetare" pretty much means "wimp" or "coward," but that might be Osaka-ben |
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Brooks
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| yowamushi |
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Zzonkmiles
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Tom Highway wrote: |
| Or "Make inu" (lit: "lost dog") can have a similar meaning I think. |
"makeinu" means "loser" (as in "That guy is such a loser.") |
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Doglover
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| Tom Highway wrote: |
| Or "Make inu" (lit: "lost dog") can have a similar meaning I think. |
Make inu usually refers to a woman whos considered 'over the hill' for marriage and cant find a husband.
I might also use the word "yowamushi" which means coward. |
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Tom Highway
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:25 am Post subject: |
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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". |
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Doglover
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| I found this too, which suggests make-inu is a "loser". |
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Tom Highway
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| I stand corrected. |
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kdynamic
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| I think your best bet by far is yowamushi |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| kdynamic wrote: |
| I think your best bet by far is yowamushi |
Doesn't sound familiar, but I'll go with it unless/until I ever recall the other expression... some slang expression to do with a worm, maybe??? Ahh... I give up.
That's all, for the suggestions.
--boz |
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Zzonkmiles
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| Bozo Yoroshiku wrote: |
| kdynamic wrote: |
| I think your best bet by far is yowamushi |
Doesn't sound familiar, but I'll go with it unless/until I ever recall the other expression... some slang expression to do with a worm, maybe??? Ahh... I give up. |
Well, yowamushi comes from "yowai" (weak) and "mushi" (insect), so that might be the expression you're thinking of. I also mentioned "hetare" earlier, but it kinda got buried in the other posts. Try using that one too, as it means the same thing and is definitely slang. Let us know how it goes. |
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Doglover
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| call them "ora!" and "konoyaro" (scumbag) , baka-tare (idiot) and watch some real sparks fly. |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Zzonkmiles wrote: |
| Well, yowamushi comes from "yowai" (weak) and "mushi" (insect), so that might be the expression you're thinking |
Maybe that is the expression after all. Insect, not worm.
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| I also mentioned "hetare" earlier, but it kinda got buried in the other posts. Try using that one too, as it means the same thing and is definitely slang. Let us know how it goes. |
It'll go okay, either way. My teacher never laughs at me (well, okay she does, but she never calls me stupid.... hmmm, well...  )
Thanks again.
--boz |
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