also: ジョーグ · じょうぐう
liker of; fan; enthusiast; -phile
Ryukyuan dialect suffix meaning 'a person who likes something' or 'a fan of something'. Attaches to nouns to form words like 酒ジョーグー (sake lover).
See also: 上戸 (じょうご)
He's a sake lover, so he drinks every night.
My grandfather is a fishing enthusiast and goes to the sea every weekend.
Kanji spelling; rarely used for this dialectal suffix. The reading じょうぐう is a possible historical or formal reading.
Hiragana variant of the same kana spelling.
Shortened katakana variant.
Shortened hiragana variant.
Ryukyuan dialect suffix, likely cognate with standard Japanese 上戸 (じょうご, 'heavy drinker'). The exact derivation is uncertain.