ボンボン

See also: ポンポン and ぼんぼん

Japanese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bonbon.

Pronunciation

Noun

ボンボン • (bonbon) 

  1. bonbon (candy)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ボンボン – see the following entry.
【ぼんぼん】
[noun] (derogatory) well-off and naive boy or young man from a prestigious family
【ぼんぼん】
[adverb] (onomatopoeia) bang, boom (e.g. of bombs); bong (e.g. of large bells)
[adverb] (ideophonic) fiercely; vigorously
(This term, ボンボン (bonbon), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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