くせげ
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Japanese
[edit]Alternative spellings |
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癖毛 くせ毛 |
Etymology
[edit]From 癖 (kuse, "peculiarity”) + 毛 (ke, "hair”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]- This word was infamously mistranslated as the ghost word "vicious hair" in the Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary from 1918 to 2003.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Michael Carr (1983), "A Lexical Ghost Story: *Vicious hair"