Meaning of やっこ in Japanese
Definition of やっこ
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(n) servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)
「あいつはいい奴だ」と皆が異口同音に言う。
He's a nice guy - that's unanimous. - chivalrous man (c. Edo period)
- cubed tofu (often served cold)
- kite shaped like a footman
- Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants
- enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime)
- (pn) he; she; him; her
Words related to やっこ
- (n) medically effective ingredient
- (n) cold tofu
- (n) efficacy of a drug or medicine
- (n) kite shaped like a footman
- (n) cubed tofu (often served cold)
- (n) petty underling
- (n) sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)
- (n) Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants
- (n) longnose butterfly fish (Forcipiger flavissimus, species of butterflyfish from the Indo-Pacific); forcepsfish
- (n) persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period)
