駄洒落

Japanese
Kanji in this term
駄 洒 落
だ
Grade: S		 しゃ > じゃ
Hyōgaiji		 らく > れ
Grade: 3
goon irregular
Alternative spelling
駄酒落 (eye dialect, possibly proscribed)

Etymology

Compound of 駄 (da-, “poor, bad, low-quality”) +‎ 洒落 (share, “joke, witticism”).[1] The share changes to jare as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Appears in the mid-1800s.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

駄(だ)洒(じゃ)落(れ) • (dajare) 

  1. a pun, a dad joke
    Synonym: (literally “old man joke”) 親父ギャグ (oyaji gyagu)

Derived terms
  • 駄洒落(だじゃれ)る (dajareru, “to make a pun, to tell a dad joke”)

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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