Word: sutoraiki
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...Japanese, though, are the past masters at making such words pay their way. Sutoraiku, for example, is the kind of strike that a pitcher throws across the plate, while sutoraiki is the kind that workers go out on. It was inevitable that the Japanese would import "word processor" and just as inevitable that they would shorten it to wa-pro. Then the younger generation seized it and made it stand for "worst proportions," meaning an unattractive woman...
besu-boro is a game brought to Japan by the nation's biggest newspaper publisher, Matsutaro Shoriki, 78. If a man fails to banto, it's a sutoraiki. (See PRESS...
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