うざい

Japanese

Alternative spelling
ウザい

Etymology

Shortening of うざったい (uzattai), arising in the Tama area of Tokyo in the 1930s.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟ᵝza̠i]

Adjective

うざい or ウザい • (uzai) -i (adverbial うざく (uzaku))

  1. [from 1930s] (slang) noisy; annoying, irritating, pissing one off
    (かお)うざい
    kao ga uzai
    making a face that pisses me off

Inflection

Synonyms

References

  1. うざい”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

Further reading

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