also: じょーぐ · じょうぐう
liker of; fan; enthusiast; -phile
Ryukyuan dialect suffix meaning 'a person who likes something' or 'a fan of something'. Attaches to nouns to form words like 酒ジョーグー (sake lover).
See also: 上戸 (じょうご)
He's a sake lover, so he drinks every night.
My grandfather is a fishing enthusiast and goes to the sea every weekend.
Kanji spelling; rarely used for this dialectal suffix. The reading じょうぐう is a possible historical or formal reading.
Shortened katakana variant.
Shortened hiragana variant.
Ryukyuan dialect suffix, likely cognate with standard Japanese 上戸 (じょうご, 'heavy drinker'). The exact derivation is uncertain.