轡虫

Japanese

Kanji in this term
轡	虫
くつわ Hyōgai	むし Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
轡蟲 (kyūjitai) くつわ虫

a female くつわ虫 (kutsuwa mushi)

Noun

轡(くつわ)虫(むし) or 轡虫(クツワムシ) • (kutsuwa mushi) 

1. giant katydid, Mecopoda niponensis, a species of katydid in the family Tettigoniidae

   Synonyms: ガチャガチャ (“gacha gacha”), 糸繰 (itokuri), 管巻 (kudamaki)

2. (figurative) a noisy person, noisy people

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as クツワムシ.

References

• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
• Yoshiro Kojima, Shigeru Takebayashi, Keisuke Nakao, and Hideo Masuda, editors (2005), Luminous Japanese-English Dictionary, second edition, Kenkyusha