noun
samurai words and phrases
Rare term referring to the distinctive vocabulary and expressions used by samurai, often associated with historical or literary contexts.
時代劇には、武者言葉がよく出てくる。
Samurai words and phrases often appear in period dramas.
Compound of 武者 (musha, 'warrior, samurai') and 言葉 (kotoba, 'words, language'), with rendaku voicing of ことば to ごとば, yielding ぶしゃことば. The reading ぶしゃ is an older or dialectal variant of むしゃ.