ばっちい

Japanese

Etymology

Shortening of ばばっちい (babatchii) of same meaning.[1][2][3] Appears in texts from the early 1980s.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) っち [bàtchíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠t̚t͡ɕiː]

Adjective

ばっちい • (batchii-i (adverbial ばっちく (batchiku))

  1. (informal, childish) dirty, unclean

Inflection

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN