noun
grilled skewered taros with miso
A traditional Japanese dish: taros (or sometimes other tubers) are skewered, grilled, and coated with a sweet miso glaze. The term is a specific type of 田楽 (dengaku).
秋になると、芋田楽が食べたくなる。
When autumn comes, I start craving grilled taros with miso.
この店の芋
The sweet miso on this shop's grilled taros is exquisite.
noun
parent-child incest
Colloquial and vulgar slang. The word plays on the image of skewering (田楽) and the homophonic association of 芋 (imo) with 'parent' and 'child' in certain slang contexts. Extremely offensive and rarely used outside of crude jokes or specific subcultural references.
ネットの掲示板で「芋田楽」というスラングを見かけたが、意味がわからなかった。
I saw the slang term 'imodengaku' on an online forum, but I didn't understand what it meant.