生き恥 – vocab dash

生いき恥はじ

Meanings

Noun

1. dishonor during one's life; shame experienced during one's life

Kanji used

生life 恥shame

Pitch accent

いきはじ

Composed of

生いき

living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; vitality; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps; stet (proofreading); leave as-is; damned

Noun

恥はじ

shame; embarrassment; disgrace

Noun

Examples1

最さい近きんのぼくは、「生いき恥はじ」「赤あか恥はじ」をかくことを恐おそれなくなりました。

Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".