ボロ家や

noun

run-down shabby house

Refers to a dilapidated, ramshackle house or building. Often used in casual or descriptive contexts.

• 彼かれはボロ家やに一人ひとりで住すんでいる。

  He lives alone in a run-down shabby house.

• あのボロ家やはもうすぐ取とり壊こわされるらしい。

  I heard that shabby house is going to be torn down soon.

noun

rag and scrap merchant

Archaic term for a dealer in rags and scrap materials. Not used in modern Japanese; historical or literary contexts only.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、ボロ屋やと呼よばれる古ふる着ぎやくずを扱あつかう商しょう人にんがいた。

  In the Edo period, there were merchants called ボロ屋 who dealt in old clothes and scrap.