生き腐れ – vocab dash

生いき腐ぐされ

Meanings

Noun

1. (fish) appearing fresh but actually gone bad

Kanji used

生life 腐rot

Pitch accent

いきぐされ

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

腐くされ

rotten; worthless; paltry; contemptible

Prefix

Examples1

早はやく帰かえった方ほうがいい、暑あついから。サバは、生いき腐ぐされとも言いわれるくらい足あしが早はやい。

It's hot, so you'd better head back quickly. Mackerel goes off so fast that they coined 'fresh-looking rotten fish'.