ちょんまげ

noun

topknot hairstyle (Edo period, sumo)

Refers to the traditional Japanese topknot worn by men in the Edo period and still worn by sumo wrestlers today.

• 相撲すもう取とりは今いまでもちょんまげを結ゆっている。

  Sumo wrestlers still wear the topknot today.

• 時じ代だい劇げきの侍さむらいはみんなちょんまげをしている。

  All the samurai in period dramas have topknots.

auxiliary

please do (for me)

Jocular, punning form of ちょうだい used after the -te form of a verb. Informal and playful.

See also: 頂戴

• ちょっとそれ、取とってちょんまげ。

  Hey, grab that for me, would ya?