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ごつごつ or ゴツゴツ (gotsugotsu

  1. (onomatopoeia) ruggedly
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  2. (onomatopoeia) stiffly
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  3. (onomatopoeia) large and defined, as a man's body
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Verb edit

ごつごつする or ゴツゴツする (gotsugotsu surusuru (stem ごつごつ (gotsugotsusuru shi), past ごつごつした (gotsugotsusuru shita))

  1. be rugged
    • 1998, Sun Myung Moon, Shukufuku katei to risō tengoku [Blessing and ideal family], volume 1, Sekai Kirisutokyō Tōitsu Shinrei Kyōkai [Unification Church], page 833:
      (じょ)(せい)(やわ)らかで(だん)(せい)ごつごつしているので、ごつごつした(もの)たちは、(やわ)らかな(じょ)(せい)(この)みます。
      Josei wa yawaraka de dansei wa gotsugotsu shite-iru no de, gotsugotsu shita monotachi wa, yawaraka na josei o konomimasu.
      Women are gentle and men are rugged, so people who are rugged prefer gentle women.
  2. be stiff
    • 1994, Imaizumi Yoshio, “Baika mujinzō chūshaku [Notes on the Baika mujinzo anthology]”, in Nihon Rekishi, page 80:
      この(まつ)は、もの(さび)しく(こま)(ごま)として、とても(たつ)()したような(どう)(どう)とした姿(すがた)ではない。(この(まつ)のように(わたし)も、(ひん)(そう)()(じん)には(ほど)(とお)い。)だが(しも)にあたって、ごつごつした(かわ)にはならず、ただ、(かろ)やかに()している。((わたし)(きび)しい(しゅ)(ぎょう)などせず、()(らく)(せい)(かつ)であった。)
      Kono matsu wa, mono sabishiku komagoma to shite, totemo tatsu ga kashita yō na dōdō to shita sugata de wa nai.(Kono matsu no yō ni watashi mo, hinsō de kijin ni wa hodotōi.) Da ga shimo ni atatte, gotsugotsu shita kawa ni wa narazu, tada, karoyaka ni fushiteiru. (Watashi mo kibishii shugyō nado sezu, kiraku na seikatsu de atta.)
      This pine looks very small and lonely, and could not be mistaken for a transfigured dragon. (Like this pine, I am poor and nothing like a nobleman.) But when frost comes, it does not leave a stiff crust, but merely lies lightly. (Likewise, I am not intensely devoted to aesthetic practice, but merely live a simple life.)
  3. be large and defined, as a man's body
    • 2014, Sasazuki Namiko, Rasuto baikingu, translation of The Last Viking by Sandra Hill, page 51:
      はっと()()きる(すん)(ぜん)(つめ)たい(うで)(こし)にまわされてごつごつした(おとこ)(からだ)()しつけられた。
      Hatto tobiokiru sunzen, tsumetai ude ga koshi ni mawasarete gotsugotsu shita otoko no karada ga oshitsukerareta.
      Just before he leapt up, the cold arms wrapped around his hips pressed against his broad manly body.

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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