ピーマン

Japanese
ピーマン (pīman): three colors of bell pepper.

Etymology

Borrowed from French piment (“chili pepper”).[1][2][3][4][5][6]

First cited to 1961.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ピーマン • (pīman) 

  1. [from 1961] bell pepper, sweet pepper
  2. [date uncertain] (slang) someone who is stupid, vapid, daft, not very bright (from the way that a bell pepper is mostly hollow inside, as a metaphor for such a person's head being empty)

Synonyms

References
  1. “ピーマン”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “ピーマン”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. “ピーマン”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  5. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  6. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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