He Says:
hage (はげ)=bald
So many japanese men use this word casually. and they also use this word to the people who isn't bald,like a just short-cropped hair people.
And when jp men are angry, they sometimes just insult "hage" to everyone who isn't bald too.
So this word hage is used to insult people.
And bald hair guy tend to be called hage as his nickname..
Variation:
hage atama-bald head
hage oyaji-bald daddy
hage jyousi-bald boss
hage chabin-bald guy like a teapot
She Says:
"Bald" doesn't tend to be too much of an insult in English. I mean, it's not exactly a good thing to be bald...but it's not exactly the worst thing in the world either. It seems to be a much bigger insult in Japanese. He runs a similar blog in Japanese (called Dirty English) and was recently pressing me about the word bald. It was hard to explain that it wasn't a huge insult here.
One thing this word does illustrate though...is how mean Japanese guys can be in their teasing of each other. I mean, here you have a word that's a pretty big insult, yet it's also a common nickname?!?! You wouldn't even believe me if I told you some of the things you'd see guys do to each other on TV. It's just wrong.
Hage chabin is kind of funny though. I wonder if that means "short and stout" also...
The next word is...うんぽんたん。
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Hey Baldy!(はげ)
Posted by He Said She Said at 3:28 PM
Labels: japanese insults
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1 comments:
Hmm I would say while 'baldy' is not a terrible insult, it's really specific and might lead the accuse to feel really hurt/insecure afterwards.
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