ぼうず – Vocabulary details

ぼうず

Noun

1. Buddhist priest; bonze

ぼんず is dialectal

坊ぼう主ずがお経きょうを読よんでいる。A priest is chanting a sutra.

2. close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head

彼かれは髪かみを切きって坊ぼう主ずにした。He had his hair cut into a buzz cut.

3. boy; sonny; lad

坊ぼう主ず、俺おれと一いっ緒しょに来こい。Come with me, kid.

4. not catching anything; getting skunked

一いち日にち中じゅう釣つりをしたが、坊ぼう主ずだった。I fished all day but caught nothing.

5. the August 20-point card

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うず

paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)

close-cropped head; shaven head; being treeless (of a mountain, hill, etc.); being leafless (of a tree, shrub, etc.); being bald

naughty boy; mischievous boy; little rascal; brat

ぼうずがお経きょうを読よんでいる。

A priest is chanting a sutra.

ぼうず、俺おれと一いっ緒しょに来こい。

Come with me, kid.

一いち日にち中じゅう釣つりをしたが、ぼうずだった。

I fished all day but caught nothing.

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