間抜け

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of (ma, space, gap) + 抜け (nuke, missing, removed, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 抜ける nukeru, “to fall out, to be missing”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

間抜け (-na inflection, hiragana まぬけ, katakana マヌケ, rōmaji manuke)

  1. slipshod, careless, stupid, idiotic
    そんな () () () (わけ)一体 (いったい)なんだよ。
    Sonna manuke na iiwake wa ittai nan da yo.
    What the hell is it with that idiotic excuse.

Inflection

Noun

間抜け (hiragana まぬけ, katakana マヌケ, rōmaji manuke)

  1. an idiot, a moron, a fool, a blockhead

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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