Japanese Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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biking n. “Biking” is one of many Japanese words that they’ve taken from English. It means “all-you-can-eat,” pretty much the same as “tabehodai,” the proper Japanese words for such culinary indulgence. [Japanese Japan Food & Drink] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2004)

biking n. Examples are バイキング which sounds like biking. However it is from the word Viking and means smorgasbord. [Japanese Japan Food & Drink] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2004)

biking n. “Whah? The dinner was biking?” We were obviously confused. “Yes, biking style.” And it is here that we must explain, dear reader, one of the many things which makes communication with the Japanese difficult. Much like the constant confusion between “l” and “r”, there is often no difference between “v” and “b” to the Japanese. So we slowly came to realize that a buffet dinner is considered to be a meal eaten “viking” style. [Japanese Japan Food & Drink] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2004)

bishojo n. Sadly, in these sims—also known as bishojo (Japanese for “pretty girl”) games—the balance between tedium and delight is firmly tilted toward boredom. [Japanese Japan Entertainment Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

BL n. Other examples of their specialized vocabulary include “yaoi” and “boizu rabu” (i.e., boy’s love, sometimes abbreviated BL). Yaoi applies when the progagonist in a manga or novel makes a reappearance in a spin-off or sequel. BL refers to an original work. [English-derived Japanese Acronym] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

boizu rabu n. Other examples of their specialized vocabulary include “yaoi” and “boizu rabu” (i.e., boy’s love, sometimes abbreviated BL). Yaoi applies when the progagonist in a manga or novel makes a reappearance in a spin-off or sequel. BL refers to an original work. [English-derived Japanese] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

bokashi n. Bokashi buckets: bokashi is the Japanese word for fermented organic matter, and this system is unusual because it involves both cooked and uncooked kitchen waste. Read the instructions carefully to see what you can and can’t add. It requires two buckets made with a special plastic impregnated with effective microorganisms—friendly bacteria, essentially. These start the breakdown process and work to eliminate odour. [Japanese Environment Plant-life] [full cite] (Jul. 17, 2007)

chindogu n. In Japan, the designer Kenji Kawakami promotes wacky gadgetry as an art he calls “chindogu”—literally “weird tools,” but more humorously translated as “unuseless inventions.” [Japanese] [full cite] (Mar. 21, 2005)

doji n. When a stock’s opening price and closing price are virtually the same, it is called a “doji” in candlestick parlance. The third stock formed what is known as a “gravestone doji,” which is a type of shooting star. [English Japanese Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2004)

doji n. In no time you’ll be looking at your candlestick charts (which are based on an ancient Japanese system developed to analyze rice contracts) and looking for exotic price patterns like “morning star,” “dark cloud cover” and “dragon-fly doji.” [Japanese Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2004)

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