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Japanese
Etymology
Alteration of 親分 (oyabun, “boss; father figure”).
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Pronunciation
Noun
おやびん • (oyabin)
- (slang, childish) boss, chief
2012, Wada Shizuka, Ongaku ni koi o shite: hyōden Yukawa Reiko [Falling in love with music: biography of Yukawa Reiko], page 7:
- 近所に住む光くんが「おやびん!」と叫んで、木切れを振り回しながら追いかけてきた。すっかりお山の大将気分だったが、本当は近所の子どもたちが「湯野川のお嬢様に何かあったら大変だ」と、たいそう気を使ってくれていたこと
- Kinjo ni sumu Mitsu-kun ga “Oyabin!” to sakende, kigire o furi mawashi nagara oikakete kita. Sukkari oyama no taishō kibun datta ga, hontō wa kinjo no kodomotachi ga “Yunogawa no ojōsama ni nanika attara taihen da” to, tai sō ki o tsukatte kurete ita koto
- A boy living in the neighborhood, Mitsu-kun, shouted “Oyabin!” and followed around after me wielding a wooden stick. I felt like the king of the hill, but really the children from the neighborhood were saying, “It would be terrible if something happened to our Miss Yunogawa,” and joining the exercise very carefully
2018 August 19, pecori no iwa, “Oyabun to oyabin wa dotchi ga tsuyoi desu ka? [Boss or bossy, which is stonger?]”, in Excite! blog:
- ワタクシは親分と呼ばれることがそんなに心地良くなかったので「ちょっとホントにやめてーっ！」 あまりに理不尽なのでワタクシもオットのことをその５年位前から“親びん“ と呼ぶことにしたなので我が家には親分と親びんがいるのだがオットが「親分のいうコトは絶対なんで！」と言えばワタクシはワタクシで「親びんの言うコト聞かないと 家からつまみ出されちゃうんで！」
- Watakushi wa oyabun to yobareru koto ga sonnani kokochi yokunakatta no de “chotto honto ni yametē'!” Amarini rifujin na no de watakushi mo otto no koto o sono gonen kurai mae kara “oyabin “ to yobu koto ni shita Nanode waga ie ni wa oyabun to oyabin ga iru no da ga otto ga “oyabun no iu koto wa zettai nande!” to ieba watakushi wa watakushi de “oyabin no iu koto kikanai to ie kara tsumami dasare chau n de!”
- Him calling me “boss” made me so uncomfortable that I said, “Hey, really, stop it!” He was so unreasonable, so about five years ago I started calling my husband “oyabin”. So now in our house there is an oyabun and an oyabin, so when my husband says, “What the boss says absolutely goes,” I think, “If you don't listen to oyabin, you’ll be thrown right out of the house!”
2020 November 6, Haruna Yamazaki, quoting Twitter user @mabotan0608, “Saikin Twitter de yoku miru ‘Oyabin’ tte dare no koto? [Who is this ‘Oyabin’ we see mentioned on Twitter recently?]”, in BuzzFeed Japan:
- ゆっくり寝て下さい✨ 松井さん！！いや！松井おやびん😭♥ おやすみなさいませませ！！
- Yukkuri nete kudasai✨ Matsui-san!! Iya! Matsui-oyabin😭♥ Oyasumi nasaimase mase!!
- Sleep well, Matsui-san!! No! Matsui-oyabin! Do get some rest!!
2020 November 6, Haruna Yamazaki, quoting an anonymous Twitter user from October 28, 2019, “Saikin Twitter de yoku miru ‘Oyabin’ tte dare no koto? [Who is this ‘Oyabin’ we see mentioned on Twitter recently?]”, in BuzzFeed Japan:
- 厨国ひどいな。トランプおやびんに何とかしてもらいたい。
- Chūgoku hidoi na. Toranpu-oyabin ni nantokashite morai tai.
- Tchina is terrible, huh. I want Boss Trump to do something.
2021 March 29, Nakayama Toshihiro, “Miete kita Baiden gaikō no rinkaku... mō ‘Toranpu-oyabin’ wa inai [A look at Biden’s diplomacy... ‘Boss Trump’ is gone]”, in FNN Prime Online:
- トランプ大統領のことを一部の日本のトランプ支持者たちは、「おやびん」と呼んでいた。トランプ時代は、ある意味、「おやびん」の後をついていけば良かった。
- Toranpu Daitōryō no koto o ichibu no Nihon no Toranpu shijishatachi wa, “Oyabin” to yondeita. Toranpu jidai wa, aru imi, “Oyabin” no ato o tsuite ikeba yokatta.
- President Trump was called Oyabin by some Japanese Trump supporters. In the Trump era, in some sense, it was good to follow Oyabin.