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.

彼かれは髪かみを切きってぼうずにした。

He had his hair cut into a buzz cut.

あの寺てらの住じゅう職しょくは生なま臭ぐさいぼうずだと評ひょう判ばんだ。

The chief priest of that temple has a reputation as a corrupt monk.

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