ヤッコ – Vocabulary details

ヤッコ

Noun

1. servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)

2. chivalrous man (Edo period)

3. cubed tofu (often served cold)

4. kite shaped like an Edo-period footman

5. Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants

6. enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime)

Archaic

Pronoun

Derogatory

7. he; she; him; her

ヤ

ッコ

cold tofu

he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

kite shaped like an Edo-period footman

persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period)

petty underling; small fry

Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants

low-ranking samurai

bluering angelfish (Pomacanthus annularis)

sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)

person sporting an itobin hairstyle

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