突っ込み

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つっこみ [tsùkkómí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝk̚ko̞mʲi]

Noun

突っ込み (hiragana つっこみ, katakana ツッコミ, rōmaji tsukkomi)

1. (comedy) a straight man
   • 2010 December 8, Sorachi, Hideaki, “第だい三百二十二訓くん　二に度どあることは三さん度どある [Lesson 322: Twice, Thrice That There Are]”, in 銀ぎん魂たま [Silver Soul], volume 37 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     メガネてめェ　ここ数 (すう)週 (しゅう)ツッコミの仕 (し)事 (ごと)してねーぞ　働 (はたら)けバカヤロー‼

     Megane temē koko sūshū tsukkomi no shigotoshitenē zo Hatarake baka yarō‼

     Hey four-eyes, you haven’t been doing your straight man job for the last couple of weeks. Back to work, moron‼

See also

• 惚 (ぼ)け (boke, “funnyman”)