ご機き嫌げん取とり

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げ

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と

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Meanings

1

noun

currying favor; sucking up; being anxious to please

Refers to the act of trying to win someone's favor, often with a negative connotation of insincere flattery or excessive eagerness to please.

Kanji

機loom, mechanism, machine
嫌dislike, detest, hate
取take, fetch, take up
御honorable, manipulate, govern

Related words

機き嫌げん取とり
Same meaning without the honorific ご prefix; slightly less polite and more direct.
お世せ辞じ
Refers to flattery or compliments, often insincere, but not necessarily the act of currying favor.
ごますり
Colloquial term for brown-nosing or sucking up, more casual and often used in workplace contexts.

Built from

ご機き嫌げん+取とる

Written forms

ご機き嫌げん取とり
Standard polite spelling with ご prefix.
御ご機き嫌げん取とり
Formal kanji spelling using 御 for the honorific prefix; less common in everyday writing.

Etymology

Compound of ご (honorific prefix) + 機嫌 (mood, humor) + 取り (taking, from 取る). Literally 'taking someone's mood', i.e., trying to put someone in a good mood to gain favor.