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金欠病 (きんけつびょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

金きん欠けつ病びょう

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Meanings

1

poverty; being broke

jocular, humorous

Jocular term, a pun on 貧血病 (anemia), implying a chronic lack of money. Used playfully to describe being broke.

給きゅう料りょう日び前まえはいつも金きん欠けつ

病びょう

だ

。

I'm always broke right before payday.

彼かれは金きん欠けつ病びょうで、昼ひる飯めしも抜ぬいているらしい。

He's so broke he seems to be skipping lunch too.

Kanji

金gold
欠lack, gap, fail
病ill, sick

Related words

貧ひん血けつ病びょう
The medical term for anemia, which 金欠病 humorously puns on by replacing 貧 (poor) with 金 (money) and 血 (blood) with 欠 (lack).
金きん欠けつ
A more common slang term for being short of money, without the playful 'disease' suffix.

Built from

金きん欠けつ+病びょう

Etymology

A humorous coinage blending 金欠 (short of money) with 病 (disease), punning on 貧血病 (anemia).