🌏 Region(s): Ryukyu (Okinawa)
うーじゃき【大酒】 : uujaki | define meaning
uujaki
Definition
Noun
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Heavy drinking; a lot of alcohol; a lot of sake
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うーじゃきぬだん【大酒飲だん】
uujaki nudan
"(I) drank a lot of alcohol", "(He) did some heavy drinking"
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うーじゃきぬだん【大酒飲だん】
Etymology
Derived from うー【大】 uu, a variant of うふ ufu "great; big", and the rendaku form of さき【大酒】 saki "alcohol; sake". Attested as early as in the Okinawan language dictionary (1896), by Masayo Nakamoto, under the spelling うーざき uuzaki.
意味：おおざけ【大酒】
Categories:
大酒
Cite this entry: Read, Zachary. (2012, December 11). うーじゃき【大酒】 : uujaki | define meaning. JLect: Japonic Languages and Dialects Database. Retrieved 2024, September 9, from https://www.jlect.com/entry/1561/uujaki/.