腐くさる

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

corrode; weather; crumble

For metal rusting, wood rotting, or materials deteriorating from age or exposure.

• 鉄てつが腐くさってボロボロになった。

  The iron corroded and became crumbly.

• 長なが年ねん放ほう置ちされた木きの橋はしが腐くさっている。

  The wooden bridge, neglected for years, is rotting.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

become useless; blunt; weaken from disuse

For skills, senses, or tools deteriorating from lack of practice or use. Often used with 腕 (skill) or 舌 (taste).

• 練れん習しゅうしないと腕うでが腐くさる。

  If you don't practice, your skills will get rusty.

• 包ほう丁ちょうが腐くさって切きれなくなった。

  The knife has become blunt and won't cut.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

become depraved; be corrupt; be morally bankrupt

For a person's character or an organization becoming rotten, corrupt, or degenerate.

• 金かねに目めがくらんで、あの政せい治じ家かは腐くさった。

  Blinded by money, that politician became corrupt.

• 腐くさった社しゃ会かいを変かえたい。

  I want to change this rotten society.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be depressed; feel down; be dispirited

Used in the phrase 気が腐る to mean feeling discouraged or depressed. The standalone verb is less common for this meaning.

See also: 気が腐る (きがくさる)

• 雨あめばかりで気きが腐くさる。

  All this rain is getting me down.

• 失しっ敗ぱいして気きが腐くさっている。

  I'm feeling discouraged after failing.

auxiliary verb, godan verb (-ru)

have the audacity to; be bastard enough to

Kansai dialect auxiliary verb attached to the -masu stem. Expresses scorn or disdain for another's action. Usually written in kana.

See also: やがる

• あいつ、よくもそんなこと言いいくさったな。

  That bastard had the nerve to say something like that.

• 何なにしとんねん、さっさとやりくさらんかい。

  What are you doing? Hurry up and do it, damn it.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

lose a bet

Archaic sense. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの文ぶん献けんでは、博打ばくちに負まけることを「腐くさる」と書かいた例れいがある。

  In Edo-period texts, there are examples where losing a bet was written as 腐る.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be drenched; become sopping wet

Archaic sense. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 古こ語ごでは、雨あめに濡ぬれてびしょびしょになることを「腐くさる」と表ひょう現げんした。

  In classical Japanese, becoming sopping wet from rain was expressed as 腐る.