プレイボーイ

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English playboy.

Noun

プレイボーイ • (pureibōi) 

1. playboy (a single man who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure)
   • 1917, Matsumura Mineko, Itazuramono: san maku kigeki, translation of The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge, page 179:

     酒(さか)屋(や)の窓(まど)からニ三(さん)人(にん)でのぞき見(み)するところで若(わか)者(もの)の近(ちか)づくのを見(み)て、あれがプレイボーイだといふあたりなぞは十(じゅう)分(ぶん)に此(こん)意(い)味(み)があると思(おも)はれます。

     Sakaya no mado kara ni san-nin de nozokimisuru tokoro de wakamono no chikazuku no o mite, are ga pureibōi da to iu atari nazo wa jūbun ni kon imi ga aru to omowaremasu.

     When two or three people peep out through the window of a liquor shop to look for a young man approaching, that is sufficient to divine that he is a playboy, I should think.

   • 1986, Akagawa Jiro, Isogashii hanayome [Busy bride], page 11:

     度(ど)の強(つよ)いメガネをかけている、という外(がい)見(けん)からは、女(じょ)性(せい)にもてるプレイボーイとは正(せい)反(は)対(んたい)の印(いん)象(しょう)しか与(あた)えられない。

     Do no tsuyoi megane o kaketeiru, to iu gaiken kara wa, josei ni moteru pureibōi to wa seihantai no inshō shika ataerarenai.

     Wearing glasses with a strong prescription, from outward appearances he seems to be the exact opposite of the playboy type popular with women.

   • 2012, Katsura Masakazu, DNA²:Doko ka de nakushita aitsu no aitsu, page 99:

     オレだってプレイボーイなんてキライだし　なりたくもないぜ

     Ore datte pureibōi nante kirai da shi Naritaku mo nai ze

     Me, I hate playboys. I don't wanna become one.

See also

• 遊(あそ)び人(にん) (asobinin)