やじ

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Japanese

Etymology 1

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Alternative spellings
野次
弥次
ヤジ

Pronunciation

Noun

やじ or ヤジ (yajiやじ (yazi)?

  1. jeering; heckling
Derived terms

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of やじ – see the following entry.
親父おやじ
(informal) an old man (elderly man)
(informal) an old man (father)
Alternative spellings
親仁, 親爺, オヤジ, ヤジ
(This term, やじ (yaji), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as やじ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as やじ.)

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN