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Japanese
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| 道樂者 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
Compound of 道楽 (dōraku, “drinking, womanizing, gambling, and other forms of hedonistic pursuits: dissipation”) + 者 (-mono, “person”).
First cited to a work from 1686.
Pronunciation
Noun
道楽者 • (dōrakumono) ←だうらくもの (daurakumono)?
- libertine, debauchee, playboy
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- その又雌の河童と云ふのは亭主を殺すつもりでゐたのです。何しろ亭主は道楽者でしたからね。
- Sono mata mesu no kappa to iu no wa teishu o korosu tsumori de ita no desu. Nani shiro teishu wa dōrakumono deshita kara ne.
- And so it turned out that said female kappa was planning on murdering her husband. It's no wonder; her husband was quite the debauchee.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “道楽者”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ “道楽者”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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