イモムシ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of イモムシ – see the following entry.

[noun] a hairless caterpillar [from 1603]

[noun] (figurative) an angry person (from the way that a person may puff up when angry and go red and swollen in the face, similar to the defense behaviors of some caterpillars) [from 1690]

[noun] (figurative, derogatory) a dummy; a term used to ridicule a person [from 1749]

[noun] a children's song and game, played by everyone squatting and holding onto the waist or shoulders of the person in front, and the whole group trying to move like a caterpillar [from 1830s]

[noun] a kind of traditional toy made to look and move like a caterpillar

(This term, イモムシ, is the katakana spelling of the above term.)

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