晒し
Meanings
Refers to the process of bleaching or soaking cloth, often as a step in textile preparation.
Put the cloth through bleaching.
bleached cotton; bleached cloth
Specifically bleached cotton fabric, traditionally used for wrapping the torso or as a cloth for various purposes.
At the festival, the men wear bleached cotton wrapped around their stomachs.
doxxing; doxing
Colloquial term for publicly exposing someone's private information online without consent.
Doxxing on the internet is a serious problem.
public humiliation (Edo-period punishment)
Historical term for a punishment in the Edo period where the offender was publicly exposed to shame.
In the Edo period, there was a punishment called sarashi (public humiliation).
Usage patterns
- 〈物〉に晒しを巻くto wrap something (e.g. the body) in sarashi cloth
Pregnant women sometimes wrap sarashi cloth around their belly.
- 〈人〉を晒しにするto publicly expose someone (doxx them)
His personal information was doxxed online.
- 〈物〉を晒しにかけるto put fabric through the bleaching/soaking process
The woven fabric is put through a bleaching process to whiten it.
- 〈人〉を晒しにかけるto subject someone to public humiliation
The criminal was paraded through the town and then subjected to public humiliation.