惚け

Japanese

Alternative spellings
呆け暈けボケ

From the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 惚(ぼ)ける (bokeru, “to become senile; to be mentally slow; to play the fool, to joke”).

惚(ぼ)け • (boke)

a fool, an idiot
- 1990 June 25 [1990 February 17], George Morikawa, “Round(ラウンド) ５(ファイブ)　1965(せんきゅうひゃく
  ろくしゅうご)年(ねん)のアッパーカット [Round 5: 1965’s Uppercut]”, in はじめの一(いっ)歩(ぽ) THE(ザ) FIGHTING(ファイティング)! [The First Step: The Fighting!], 3rd edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 132:
  
  ボケッと　しとらんで地(ち)下(か)のリングに来(こ)いっ‼さっそく始(はじ)めるぞ！
  Boketto shitorande chika no ringu ni koi'‼ Sassoku hajimeru zo!
  You nimrod! Get your ass outta the daze and to the basement ring!! We’re getting started now!
(comedy) a funnyman (character who does or says stupid things and is called out by a straight man)

惚(ぼ)け • (boke)