うんち

Japanese

Etymology 1

From うん (un, the sound made when straining)[1] + (chi), a suffixing element of unclear derivation; possibly related to the directional nominalizer (chi) also seen in words like こっち (kocchi, this way, this direction), どっち (docchi, which way, which direction).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んち [úꜜǹchì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟̃ᵝɲ̟t͡ɕi]

Noun

うんち • (unchi) 

  1. (childish) poop, shit, feces

Verb

うんちする • (unchi suru) suru (stem うんち (unchi suru shi), past うんちした (unchi suru shita))

  1. (childish) to poop, to shit
Conjugation

Synonyms

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of うんち – see the following entry.
運痴
[noun] (colloquial) short for 運動音痴
(This term, うんち, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References

  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, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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