やけくそ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
自棄糞
焼糞

Etymology

From やけ (yake) + 糞(くそ) (kuso).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やけくそ [yàkékúsó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ke̞kɯ̟ᵝso̞]

Noun

やけくそ • (yakekuso) ←やけくそ (yakekuso)?

  1. (emphatic) Synonym of やけ (yake, “despair, desperation”)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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