土左衛門
Japanese
Japan
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(n.) Means "a drowned body". Dozaemon was originally a sumo wrestler, who was so pale and fat that people started joking that drowned bodies looked just like him. Not to be mistaken with Doraemon.
"あの川で土左衛門が上がったそうだ。"
"I heard a drowned body was found at that river.
Submitted December 2020
by anonymous
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<p>Means "a drowned body". Dozaemon was originally a sumo wrestler, who was so pale and fat that people started joking that drowned bodies looked just like him. Not to be mistaken with Doraemon.</p>