厨ちゅう房ぼう

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

noun

kitchen; galley

Standard word for a kitchen, including a ship's galley.

新あたらしい厨ちゅう房ぼうで料りょう理りを作つくるのが楽たのしみです。
I'm looking forward to cooking in the new kitchen.
船ふねの厨ちゅう房ぼうはとても狭せまい。
The ship's galley is very small.

noun

troll; immature user

internet slang

Internet slang derived from a play on 中坊 (middle-school kid), implying childish or disruptive online behavior.

Usage patterns

〈場ば所しょ〉の厨ちゅう房ぼうで働はたらくto work in the kitchen of a place (e.g. restaurant, hotel)
彼かれはホテルの厨ちゅう房ぼうで働はたらいている。
He works in the kitchen of a hotel.
〈人ひと〉は厨ちゅう房ぼうだto call someone a troll/immature user online
そんな書かき込こみをするやつは厨ちゅう房ぼうだ。
Anyone who posts stuff like that is just a troll.
厨ちゅう房ぼうに入はいるto enter the (restaurant/professional) kitchen
客きゃくは厨ちゅう房ぼうに入はいることができない。
Customers are not allowed to enter the kitchen.

Kanji

厨kitchen
房tassel, tuft, fringe

Related words

台だい所どころN5sense 1
台所 is the common word for a household kitchen, while 厨房 is used for professional or institutional kitchens like those in restaurants.
調ちょう理り場ば sense 1
調理場 and 厨房 both refer to a commercial cooking area, but 調理場 is slightly more casual and common in everyday restaurant talk.
キッチンN1sense 1
キッチン is a modern, casual loanword for a kitchen, whereas 厨房 sounds formal and is typically reserved for professional settings.
厨ちゅう
厨 is the shortened slang form, while 厨房 is the fuller original slang term (also literally meaning 'kitchen') that 厨 was abbreviated from.

Don't confuse with

中ちゅう坊ぼう sense 2
中坊 (a middle-school student) is pronounced identically to 厨房's slang sense, and the Internet-slang meaning of 厨房 actually plays on this word.

Etymology

The kanji 厨 (kitchen) and 房 (room) combine to mean 'kitchen'. The Internet slang sense is a homophonic pun on 中坊 (middle-school kid), implying childish behavior.