ブタ

See also: ふた, ふだ, and ぶた

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ブタ – see the following entry.

【豚ぶた】S [noun] [from late 1480s] pig; swine [noun] [from 1703] (derogatory) a fat person, an unattractive woman [noun] [from 1846] pork (the meat) [noun] [from 1960] a wild boar [noun] [from 1723] a hand of cards worth zero (such as 8–9–3 totalling 20, which is equivalent to zero), in Baccarat-like three-card games such as おいちょかぶ [noun] [from ???] (colloquial, poker) synonym of ハイカード (hai kādo, “high card”): a no pair, a hand without even a pair (probably a modification of the term for a zero-valued card hand) Alternative spelling 豕

(This term, ブタ (buta), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)