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駄洒落

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
駄 洒 落
だ
Grade: S 		しゃ > じゃ
Hyōgai 		らく > れ
Grade: 3
goon irregular
Alternative spelling
駄酒落 (eye dialect, possibly proscribed)
 
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Etymology

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Compound of 駄 (da-, “poor, bad, low-quality”) +‎ 洒落 (share, “joke, witticism”).[1] The share changes to jare as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Appears in the mid-1800s.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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駄(だ)洒(じゃ)落(れ) • (dajare) 

  1. a pun, a dad joke
    Synonym: (literally “old man joke”) 親父ギャグ (oyaji gyagu)

Derived terms

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References

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  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. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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