待ち惚け – vocab dash

待まち惚ぼけ

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Meanings

Noun

1. waiting in vain

Other spellings

待まちぼけ

Other readings

Kanji used

Composed of

waiting; waiting time; wait tile; tile which would complete one's hand

Noun

fool; idiot; touched in the head (from); out of it (from); feeling sluggish (from); not yet up to par (after); funny man (of a comedy duo)

Noun

Examples2

彼かれはポールがまちぼうけをくわせたのだと悟さとった。

He realized Paul had stood him up.

ジムは映えい画がに行いく約やく束そくをしたガールフレンドに待まちぼうけをくわされ、雨あめの中なかを一いち時じ間かんも待またされて頭あたまにきている。

Jim's angry because his date for the movie stood him up and he wasted an hour waiting for her in the rain.