屁へ負おい比び丘く尼に

noun

female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts

Historical term from the Edo period. A female attendant who would claim responsibility for a noblewoman's flatulence to save her embarrassment.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、屁へ負おい比び丘く尼にという役やく割わりの女じょ性せいがいたと伝つたえられる。

  It is said that in the Edo period there were women who served as 'heoi bikuni', taking the blame for noblewomen's flatulence.