Alternative spelling
|
五月蠅い (kyūjitai)
|
The spelling is a form of jukujikun (熟字訓), and is used in the novels of Natsume Soseki. The literal meaning of the spelling is 五月 (“May”, the month, normally read gogatsu) + 蝿 (“fly”, the insect, normally read hae) + い (i, a common adjective-forming suffix), from the way that annoying and noisy flies tend to swarm in May.[1]
For pronunciation and definitions of 五月蝿い – see the following entry.
|
【うるさい】
|
- [adjective] [late 900s – Kamakura period] overwhelmingly thorough (often in a positive way); excessive, repetitive (in a negative way)
- [adjective] [from early 900s] (by extension from the "thorough" sense) so thoroughly knowledgeable and particular about something as to be annoying to others: picky, nitpicking, fussy
- [adjective] [from late 900s] pushy, bossy, overly particular and demanding
- [adjective] [early 1000s – ???] excellent of technique (particularly for a performance)
- [adjective] [late 1100s – ???] extremely strained, faked, insincere, affected
- [adjective] [from early 1100s] oppressive and annoying in a surrounding and overwhelming way
- [adjective] noisy, loud
- [adjective] annoying, irritating
- [adjective] [from early 1900s] troublesome, bothersome, irksome (usually in reference to having to do something)
- [adjective] [from early 1600s] dirty, messy, causing a bad feeling
- [interjection] (figuratively) shut up; stop it
|
|
(This term, 五月蝿い, is an alternative spelling (less common) of the above term.)
|