化け物

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Japanese [edit]

Kanji in this term

Etymology [edit]

Compound of 化け (bake, stem noun form of 化ける (bakeru, take a different form, disguise oneself)) +‎  (mono, thing).

Noun [edit]

化け物 (hiragana ばけもの, romaji bakemono)

  1. a monster, a ghost, a phantom
    化け物のような茄子
    ばけもののようななす
    bakemono no yō na nasu
    a monstrous eggplant, a monster of an eggplant
  2. someone of prodigious ability
    トランプにかけては化け物だ。
    トランプにかけてはばけものだ。
    Toranpu ni kakete wa bakemono da.
    He's a monster / a whiz at cards.

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