めちゃくちゃ
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Japanese[edit]
Alternative spellings |
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滅茶苦茶 目茶苦茶 |
Etymology[edit]
This etymology is hypothetical. Since that 無茶 (mucha) shifted to 滅茶 (mecha) by ateji (当て字), there may be an idea raised that a 滅茶 (mecha) ("ruined tea" or thus, "wrongly prepared tea") would be a 苦茶 (kucha) ("bitter tea"), which would also favor the sense of four-character idioms or 四字熟語 (yojijukugo).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
めちゃくちゃ • (mechakucha) -na (adnominal めちゃくちゃな (mechakucha na na), adverbial めちゃくちゃに (mechakucha ni ni))
- absurd, unreasonable, illogical
- incoherent, disorderly, messy
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Japanese translation by Giichi Shishido
- 僕は話をやめました。やっとのことでその人は、めちゃくちゃな語調で言いはじめました。
- Boku wa hanashi o yamemashita. Yatto no koto de sono hito wa, mechakucha na gochō de iihajimemashita.
- I paused; at length he spoke, in broken accents.
- 僕は話をやめました。やっとのことでその人は、めちゃくちゃな語調で言いはじめました。
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Japanese translation by Giichi Shishido
- reckless, excessive
- ruined, destroyed
Synonyms[edit]
- はちゃめちゃ (hachamecha)
Adverb[edit]
めちゃくちゃ • (mechakucha)
- very, really
- めちゃくちゃ恥ずかしい
- mechakucha hazukashii
- really embarrassed
- 1914-17, Franz Kafka, The Cares of a Family Man, Japanese translation by Yū Ōkubo
- もうちょっと言わせてもらうと、オドラデクはめちゃくちゃすばしっこいやつなので、どうにもつかまえられなくて、だからそういうことをどうとも言えんのである。
- Mō chotto iwasete morau to, Odoradeku wa mechakucha subashikkoi yatsu na no de, dō ni mo tsukamaerarenakute, da kara sō iu koto o dō to mo ien no de aru.
- In any case, closer scrutiny is impossible, since Odradek is extraordinarily nimble and can never be laid hold of.[3]
- もうちょっと言わせてもらうと、オドラデクはめちゃくちゃすばしっこいやつなので、どうにもつかまえられなくて、だからそういうことをどうとも言えんのである。
- めちゃくちゃ恥ずかしい
References[edit]
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ^ Franz Kafka (2002) Helmuth Kiesel, editor, Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Other Writings (German Library Series, Volume 65)[1], A&C Black, →ISBN, page 77