駄洒落

Japanese

Kanji in this term
駄	洒	落
だ Grade: S	しゃ > じゃ Hyōgaiji	らく > れ Grade: 3
goon		irregular

Alternative spelling
駄酒落 (eye dialect, possibly proscribed)

Etymology

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

(Tokyo) だじゃれ [dàjáré] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
IPA^(key): [da̠ʑa̠ɾe̞]

Noun

駄(だ)洒(じゃ)落(れ) • (dajare)

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

Derived terms

駄洒落(だじゃれ)る (dajareru, “to make a pun, to tell a dad joke”)

References

Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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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