厨ちゅう房ぼう

ちゅ

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ぼ

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

1

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.

2

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.