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Korean
Etymology
First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean ᄃᆡ골 (Yale: tòykwòl). The noun suffix -이 (-i) was later attached.
The word is generally considered a compound, but the etymology is not fully clear. The second component is probably 골 (gol, “brain”). For the first element, compare Jeju 데멩이 (demeng'i, “head”), Jeolla dialect 대망 (daemang, “forehead”), and beyond Korean, Chinese 頭 (MC duw, “head”), Proto-Mongolic *teriün (“head”).
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | daegari |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | daegali |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | taegari |
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| Yale Romanization? | taykali |
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Noun
대가리 • (daegari)
- (colloquial) head of an animal
- Hypernym: 머리 (meori, “head”)
- (vulgar, derogatory) head of a person
걔는 대가리에 도대체 뭐가 들었길래 이렇게 멍청하냐?- gyae-neun daegari-e dodaeche mwo-ga deureotgillae ireoke meongcheonghanya?
- What on earth does he have inside his head that he's as stupid as this?
- (slang) boss
- 학교 대가리 ― hakgyo daegari ― school boss (usually a delinquent student good at physical fights who is influential among the student body)
Derived terms
Suffix
—대가리 • (-daegari)
- A vulgarizing, pejorative suffix.
- 멋도 없이 > 멋대가리도 없이 ― meot-do eopsi > meotdaegari-do eopsi ― with no taste > with no fucking taste