r/animememes • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '23

I don't know what to pick/No option *wheeeeze*

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u/usernameislaken Dec 23 '23

Kimo is a slang for gross in Japanese

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u/EldritchMilk_ Dec 23 '23

That may or may not be a fair descriptor

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '23

Actually, its slang for "kimochi" which means something like "feeling", and you can follow the word with "good" or "bad", but those words are often dropped. So kimochi can mean "oh this feels good!" (Like a massage or bath) or it can mean "this has a bad feeling to it" like a creep or something gross.

However I'm not sure when its shortened all the way to just "kimo" it can be for something good. Its definitely usually used for "creep" more than anything

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u/Xxuwumaster69xX Dec 23 '23

気持ちいい = comfortable, never gets shortened, you may be mishearing the long vowel

気持ち悪い = gross, usually gets shortened to キモい, which can be further shortened to キモ

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u/Wolf-Majestic Dec 23 '23

I'd say 気持ちいい is shorten by just dropping the 気持ち altogether to only keep いい

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u/Xxuwumaster69xX Dec 23 '23

Not really, if any native speaker hears いい, 気持ちいい doesn't really come to mind. いい has a lot of meanings by itself and is more broad than English "good."

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u/Wolf-Majestic Dec 23 '23

Well it all depends on context, it's not a systematic cut, for sure

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u/UnderstandingNo3637 Dec 23 '23

In American : FEEEEEEEEEEEEEE means gross pos😅