まちやっこ
Meanings
Noun
1. persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period)
Kanji used
town
guy
Pitch accent
ちや
っこ
Composed of
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
servant (esp. a samurai's attendant); chivalrous man (Edo period); cubed tofu (often served cold); kite shaped like an Edo-period footman; Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants; enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime); (arch.) he