ガキ

Japanese

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

【餓鬼がき】 [noun] (Buddhism) short for 餓鬼道 (gakidō): the hungry ghost realm, one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology [noun] (Buddhism) a preta: the spirit of a jealous or greedy person who, as punishment for mortal vices, has been cursed with insatiable hunger [noun] (Buddhism) the souls of the dead who languish in oblivion without any surviving relatives to pray for their peace [noun] (figurative) anyone who is constantly hungry or thirsty [noun] (figurative) anyone who is unhealthily thin and appears as if they are starving [noun] (archaic) Short for 餓鬼病 (gakiyami, gakibyō, “leprosy”). [noun] (derogatory, slang, by extension from the sense of someone who is always hungry) an unpleasant child, a brat

(This term, ガキ (gaki), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)