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持ち切り (もちきり) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

持もち切きり

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Meanings

1

noun

hot topic; talk of the town

Used when everyone is talking about the same thing; often appears as 〜で持ち切りだ or 〜の話で持ち切りだ.

最さい近きん、彼かれの結けっ婚こんの話はなしで持もち切きりだ。
Lately, everyone's been talking about his marriage.
町まち中じゅうがその事じ件けんで持もち切きりだっ

た

。

The whole town was abuzz with that incident.

Written forms

持もち切きりUsage13%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority in news and frequency lists.
もちきりUsage47%
持もちきりUsage39%
Common kana-mixed spelling; the okurigana きり is often written in kana.
持もち切きりUsage2%
search-only kanji form
Search-only form; the okurigana 切り is written in kanji.

Kanji

持hold, have
切cut, cutoff, be sharp

Similar words

話わ題だい
話題 is a general word for 'topic' or 'subject of conversation', while 持ち切り emphasizes that a topic dominates conversation everywhere.

Etymology

From 持ち (continuative form of 持つ 'to hold') + 切り (from 切る 'to cut off', here meaning 'completely' or 'exclusively'), literally 'holding exclusively'; the sense of a topic dominating conversation is an extension of this.