こたつむし – Vocabulary details

こたつむし

Noun

Colloquialism

1. someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu bug; kotatsu snail

pun on かたつむり

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kotatsu; table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)

insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness

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