Word Meaning てよだわ言葉

てよだわことば teyodawakotoba

てよだわ言葉 is read as てよだわことば (teyodawakotoba) and means teyo-dawa speech.

Meaning

English

teyo-dawa speech
mid-Meiji period schoolgirl slang in which sentence-end particles "teyo" and "dawa" were used prominently

Reading

Kana

てよだわことば

Romaji

teyodawakotoba

Stroke Sequence

6 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 75428 Priority L

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

言葉

ことば

language

話し言葉

はなしことば

spoken language

書き言葉

かきことば

written word

合言葉

あいことば

motto

花言葉

はなことば

language of flowers (e.g. the use of red roses to signify love)

大和言葉

やまとことば

word of Japanese origin

国言葉

くにことば

national language

大和言の葉

やまとことのは

waka

お国言葉

おくにことば

local dialect

山の手言葉

やまのてことば

the refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo

さ入れ言葉

さいれことば

sa-added word (i.e. causative forms with an extra 'sa' like 'ikasaseru' for 'iku')

山言葉

やまことば

euphemisms used by hunters, lumberjacks, etc. when in the wild