Japanese Slang (59 page)

tobi
short for
tobid
gu
, “flying tool”

tobid
gu
flying tool

toyachitari
pig's leg (ethnic Korean origin)

HANDCUFFS

chin

hanamae
in front of the nose

kai
shells

kakushi
hidden (the police will often allow one to drape a jacket over one's handcuffs)

shaka
Buddha

wappa
rings

HOMOSEXUAL

anko
(Yakuza slang)

botsu
(Yakuza slang)

bonpu
mortal (homosexual slang)

eichi bii
the initials HB, short for “homo boy” (student slang)

emu-teki
“M-like” the initial M stands for “masculine” (butch-looking, straight-acting homosexual)

gei
the English word “gay”

gei b
i
gay boy (host in a homosexual club)

girimomu
(Yakuza slang)

h
ado gei
hard gay (tough-looking homosexual)

h
ado koa
hardcore (tough-looking homosexual)

homo
homo

ichi
(Yakuza slang)

isha no musuko
doctor's son (they get into university through the “back door”)

kikuzara

musume
daughter (prison slang)

neko
cat (passive, effeminate homosexual)

nisai
older man who prefers young men (homosexual slang)

ome

okama
(general slang)

okamahori
ass digger

on
sister

rishi
inversion of
shiri,
“bottom”

tachiyaku
actor playing a leading man (tough-acting, masculine homosexual)

tonka
adolescent homosexual (Yakuza slang)

ukemi
receiving body (passive, effeminate homosexual)

yakko
servant (prison slang)

IDIOT

aho
(Osaka dialect origin)

ahondara
(Osaka dialect origin)

anpontan
(Tochigi dialect origin)

ao
from
aho

atama ga piiman
red-pepper head

atama ga supagetti
spaghetti head

atama ga uni
sea-urchin head

atatakai
warm

ateuma
whipped horse (gambling slang)

attamon
from
atatakai mono
, "warm person"

p
contraction of
atama,

“head” and
p
, “softheaded”

baka
(standard slang)

bakachin
(standard slang)

bakamono
(standard slang)

bobura

boke
idiot

boketan
stronger version of
boke

dabo
from
dabohaze,
“goby fish”

daburu p
conjunction of the English word “double,” and
p
a,
“softheaded”

dara
from
daradara,
“slipshod”

daraji

dongodara

donk
slow train (high school slang)