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惚とぼける
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
Usually written in kana
1. to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
It doesn't look like they are playing dumb at all.
2. to play the fool
He said goofy things and made everyone laugh.
3. to be in one's dotage
Alt. forms
とぼける
92%
惚とぼける
5%
恍とぼける
1%
Kanji used
惚
fall in love
Pitch accent
と
ぼけ
る
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Conjugations...Used in: 200
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake
to feign ignorance; to play dumb
to feign ignorance; to pretend one doesn't know
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