おなべ

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
御鍋
お鍋
オナベ

Etymology

From 御(お) (o-, honorific) + 鍋(なべ) (nabe, “stew pot”). The LGBT slang sense is by analogy to おかま (okama), literally “rice pot”, a slang term for gay or feminine men. The “maidservant” sense comes from association between maids and cooking or serving food.

Pronunciation

Noun

おなべ or オナベ • (onabe) 

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see お,‎ 鍋.
  2. (LGBTQ slang, sometimes offensive) butch; dyke; or, a trans man, female-to-male (FTM)
    • 2015 May 6, “Suiyōbi no Dauntaun [Wednesday on ‘Downtown’]”, in TV datazō‎, archived from the original on 24 October 2021:
      オネエとオナベ相撲(すもう)とったらトントン説(せつ)。
      Onē to onabe sumō tottara tonton setsu.
      The theory that it would be steady if MTF and FTM play sumo together.
  3. (literary, dated) (nickname for) a maidservant

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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