ごつごつ

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Japanese

Pronunciation

Adverb

ごつごつ or ゴツゴツ • (gotsugotsu) 

  1. (onomatopoeia) ruggedly
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  2. (onomatopoeia) stiffly
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  3. (onomatopoeia) large and defined, as a man's body
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Verb

ごつごつする or ゴツゴツする • (gotsugotsu suru) suru (stem ごつごつし (gotsugotsu shi), past ごつごつした (gotsugotsu shita))

  1. be rugged
    • 1998, Sun Myung Moon, Shukufuku katei to risō tengoku [Blessing and ideal family], volume 1, Sekai Kirisutokyō Tōitsu Shinrei Kyōkai , page 833:
      女(じょ)性(せい)は柔(やわ)らかで男(だん)性(せい)はごつごつしているので、ごつごつした者(もの)たちは、柔(やわ)らかな女(じょ)性(せい)を好(この)みます。
      Josei wa yawaraka de dansei wa gotsugotsu shite-iru no de, gotsugotsu shita monotachi wa, yawaraka na josei o konomimasu.
      Women are gentle and men are rugged, so people who are rugged prefer gentle women.
  2. be stiff
    • 1994, Imaizumi Yoshio, “Baika mujinzō chūshaku [Notes on the Baika mujinzo anthology]”, in Nihon Rekishi, page 80:
      この松(まつ)は、もの淋(さび)しく細(こま)々(ごま)として、とても龍(たつ)が化(か)したような堂(どう)々(どう)とした姿(すがた)ではない。（この松(まつ)のように私(わたし)も、貧(ひん)相(そう)で貴(き)人(じん)には程(ほど)遠(とお)い。）だが霜(しも)にあたって、ごつごつした皮(かわ)にはならず、ただ、軽(かろ)やかに伏(ふ)している。(私(わたし)も厳(きび)しい修(しゅ)行(ぎょう)などせず、気(き)楽(らく)な生(せい)活(かつ)であった。)
      Kono matsu wa, mono sabishiku komagoma to shite, totemo tatsu ga kashita yō na dōdō to shita sugata de wa nai.(Kono matsu no yō ni watashi mo, hinsō de kijin ni wa hodotōi.) Da ga shimo ni atatte, gotsugotsu shita kawa ni wa narazu, tada, karoyaka ni fushiteiru. (Watashi mo kibishii shugyō nado sezu, kiraku na seikatsu de atta.)
      This pine looks very small and lonely, and could not be mistaken for a transfigured dragon. (Like this pine, I am poor and nothing like a nobleman.) But when frost comes, it does not leave a stiff crust, but merely lies lightly. (Likewise, I am not intensely devoted to aesthetic practice, but merely live a simple life.)
  3. be large and defined, as a man's body
    • 2014, Sasazuki Namiko, Rasuto baikingu, translation of The Last Viking by Sandra Hill, page 51:
      はっと飛(と)び起(お)きる寸(すん)前(ぜん)、冷(つめ)たい腕(うで)が腰(こし)にまわされてごつごつした男(おとこ)の体(からだ)が押(お)しつけられた。
      Hatto tobiokiru sunzen, tsumetai ude ga koshi ni mawasarete gotsugotsu shita otoko no karada ga oshitsukerareta.
      Just before he leapt up, the cold arms wrapped around his hips pressed against his broad manly body.

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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