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豚ぶた - buta
pig
Definitions
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豚 |
1. n. (from late 1480s) pig; swine |
2. n. (from 1703) (derogatory) a fat person, an unattractive woman |
3. n. (from 1846) pork q, the meat |
4. n. (from 1960) a wild boar |
(synonyms, ja, 猪, tr1=i, inoshishi) |
5. n. (from 1723) a hand of cards worth zero (such as 8–9–3 totalling 20, which is equivalent to zero), in Baccarat-like three-card games such as おいちょかぶ |
6. n. (from ???) (colloquial poker) syn of ja, ハイカード, tr=hai kādo, , high card: a no pair, a hand without even a pair q, probably a modification of the term for a zero-valued card hand |
Pronunciation
buta
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