飲み助

Japanese

Kanji in this term
飲	助
の Grade: 3	すけ Grade: 3

Alternative spellings
飮み助 (kyūjitai) 飲助 呑み助 呑助

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [no̞mʲisɨke̞]

Noun

飲(の)み助(すけ) • (nomisuke) 

1. a person who likes to drink alcohol
2. a heavy drinker; drunkard

   Synonyms: 飲兵衛 (nonbee), 酒飲み (sakenomi), 酒食 (sakekurai), 大酒飲み (ōsakenomi)

   • 1964, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Nihon no bungaku, page 208:

     私(わたし)は議(ぎ)員(いん)や飲(のみ)助(すけ)といっしょに帰(かえ)ったが、病(びょう)院(いん)の病(びょう)棟(とう)全(ぜん)体(たい)から、何(なに)かわけのわからない無(む)言(ごん)の呟(つぶや)きが湧(わ)き上(あが)った

     Watashi wa gīn ya nomisuke to issho ni kaetta ga, byōin no byōtō zentai kara, nanika wake no wakaranai mugon no tsubuyaki ga waki agatta

     Whether I returned with a member of parliament or a drunkard, the entire hospital ward put up such an incomprehensible, quiet murmuring

   • 2010, Yada Tsuseko, “Tōun”, in Wana o tobikoeru onna‎^[1], page 20:

     このような飲(の)み助(すけ)の相(あい)棒(ぼう)は、あぶらやの仙(せん)太(た)親(おや)爺(じ)ときまっている。

     Kono yō na nomisuke no aibō wa, Aburaya no Senta oyaji to kimatteiru.

     The partner of such drunkards was always old Senta of Aburaya.