湯たん婆ぽ

noun

hot-water bottle

A container filled with hot water and used to warm a bed or body. In modern Japanese, almost always written in kana as 湯たんぽ or simply たんぽ. The kanji spelling 湯婆 is ateji and very rare.

See also: 湯たんぽ

• 寒さむい夜よるは湯ゆたんぽを布ふ団とんに入いれて寝ねます。

  On cold nights, I put a hot-water bottle in my futon and sleep.

• 昔むかしは金きん属ぞく製せいの湯たん婆ぽを使つかっていた。

  In the old days, they used metal hot-water bottles.

noun

metal sake jug; sake warmer

Only with reading たんぽ

Kansai dialect term for a metal container used to warm sake, similar to a ちろり. Restricted to the reading たんぽ.

See also: チロリ

• 関かん西さいでは、酒さけを燗かんする金きん属ぞく製せいの器うつわをたんぽと呼よぶことがある。

  In Kansai, a metal vessel for warming sake is sometimes called a たんぽ.