Catchword: okoge

Filed Under: English, Japanese, Japan, Sex & Sexuality

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: The young Office Ladies found the city’s gay men so cute, they latched on to their club scene. But now the ‘sticky rice girls’ have come unstuck.…A new phenomenon emerged: the okoge. The closest English translation is fag hag, but this doesn’t do justice to the expression. Okoge is a culinary term, referring to those irritating grains of rice that stubbornly glue themselves to the bottom of the pot.

Article or Document Title:
“Sayonara to Tokyo’s camp followers”

Author:
Richard Lloyd Parry

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Independent

Publishing Location:
Londong, England

Date of Publication:
May 30, 1995

Page Number:
18

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