口汚い

• 読み: くちぎたない
• ローマ字: kuchigitanai
• 漢字の分解: 口 (kuchi) — mouth; 汚 (gita/kitana) — dirty, filthy, impure
• 発音: /kɯ.tɕi.ɡi.ta.na.i/

意味

Foul-mouthed; abusive; vulgar in speech. Describes a person or manner of speaking that uses crude, offensive, or insulting language.

An i-adjective formed from 口 (kuchi — mouth) and 汚い (kitanai — dirty, filthy). It specifically criticises the quality of someone's spoken language as crude or abusive. Used to describe habitual vulgarity rather than a single offensive remark. More literary or formal-critical in tone than the colloquial 汚い言葉を使う.

例文

1. 彼は怒ると口汚い言葉を平気で使う。
2. 口汚い批評家たちは作家の努力を一切認めなかった。
3. そんな口汚い言い方をしなくても、伝えたいことはわかる。

使い方ガイド

場面: criticism, character description, literary narration

トーン: disapproving

起源と歴史

Compound of 口 (kuchi — mouth) and 汚い (kitanai — dirty, impure). The metaphor of a dirty mouth as a source of morally impure speech is common across many world languages.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal