noun
crow; Mr. Crow
Obsolete humorous personification of a crow, used as a playful name.
In Edo-period humorous books, crows were sometimes called 烏勘左衛門.
noun
tanned person; dark-skinned person
Obsolete derogatory term likening a dark-skinned person to a crow.
昔の言葉で、日に焼けた人を「烏勘左衛門」とあざけることがあった。
In old language, a sun-tanned person was sometimes mocked as 烏勘左衛門.
noun
Archaic term for being broke, possibly from the image of a crow's blackness suggesting emptiness.
「烏勘左衛門」は、昔、無一文の状態を表すのに使われた。
烏勘左衛門 was once used to describe a penniless state.