乙男

Japanese

Kanji in this term
おと
Grade: S
めん
Grade: 1
Irregular

Etymology

Blend of 乙女 (otome, young girl) + メンズ (menzu, men's, from English men's, apparently used here loosely and facetiously to refer to “a man”).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • IPA(key): [o̞to̞mẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

乙男 (hiragana おとめん, rōmaji otomen)

  1. a man with the sensitive feelings of a girl
  2. (pejorative) a girly boy

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.