つび

Japanese

Alternative spelling
𡱖

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t͡sɨbʲi]

Noun

つび • (tsubi)

(archaic) female genitalia; vagina
- 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 2, page 46:
  玉門房内經云玉門、女陰名也、按謂女陰爲玉門、見外臺秘要引素女經及病源候論婦人帶下候、楊氏漢語抄云、尿、通鼻今案俗人或曰朱門並未詳
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō
  陰ツヒ玉茎玉門等之通称尿開玉門朱門　玉泉
- 1254: Kokon Chomonjū (volume 16, episode 544)
  彼女がつかひける物の中に、つくしの女ありけり。[...] 「其つくしの女、われにあはせ給へ。たえがたくゆかしき事侍り」といへば、妻のことふるやう、「[...] 何事の床敷てかくはのたまふぞ」といへば、盛廣、「いまだしりたまはぬか。つびはつくしつびとて、第一の物といふなり。」
- 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 621:
  Tçubi. ツビ (開) 女子の陰部。卑語。
  Tsubi. (Opening). A females genitals/a pussy. Vulgar language.
- 1775: Butsurui Shōko (page 30)
  陰へへつび奥羽及越路又尾張邊にてべべといふ關西關東ともにべゞといふは小兒の衣服の事なり下總にてそゝといふ此外男女の陰名國々異名多し略す江戸にて物のそゝけたつなどいふ詞有和泉及遠江邊にてはぼゞけたつと云。江戸にてはさはいはれぬことばなり
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

まんこ (manko)
おまんこ (omanko)
おめこ (omeko)
そそ (soso)
おそそ (ososo)
ほと (hoto)
みと (mito)
へへ (hehe)
べべ (bebe)

References

Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
Nagazumi, Yasuaki with Isao Shimda (1254) Koten Bungaku Taikei 84: Kokon Chomonjū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, published 1966, →ISBN
Tadakane, Tachibana with Atsuo Masamune (ed.) (c. 1177-1188) Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese), Kazama Shobō, published 1971
Tōjō, Misao (1941) [1775] Butsurui Shōko (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of つび – see the following entry.

【螺】J	[noun] (obsolete) spiral shellfish, especially smaller ones [noun] (obsolete) Synonym of 蛤 (hamaguri, “clam”)

(This term, つび (tsubi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as つび, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つび.)