Kimoi

Meaning: ugly, weird, disgusting, unusual, gross, sick,,,,


who: Young generation, mostly until late 40s or higher.

Setting: With your friends in your generation, family. Do not use in formal situations.

This word is actually abbreviation of the word "Kimochi warui"(adj) means "I feel sick" or "This thing makes me feel sick".
"Kimochi" means feelings, "warui" means "bad" in Japanese. so you can say "Yabai Kimochi warui" means "I'm really sick."

"kimochi warui" is on any dictionary in Japan that means it's a formal word while "kimoi" is not and it's a slang.


Your boyfriend is "kimoi" when he's acting like a baby in front of you. (= ??? )
Mold you found on a leftover in your friend's fridge is "kimoi" (= ewww)
The girl you hate is also "kimoi", because she is mean and makes you sick!

This word doesn't apply on physical messiness though.

And again, everything would be replaced or used with "yabai" or even "choo".


"Mite! Yabai, ano hito choo kimoi"
"mite" means "Look!" "ano" can be replaced as "that" and "hito" means "person" or "guy"
so, the translation for the sentence above is "Look! yabai, that guy is so gross!"

right?



If you want to negative "kimoi", you drop "i" at the end and put "kunai"
so it's "kimokunai"(= no, it's not gross)

If you want past tense drop "i" at the end again and put "katta", so it's "kimokatta" (= that was gross)


I'll help you translate what you think is gross or sick with "kimoi" sentence in Japanese, so feel free to add comments!

thatnks! arigatou for reading!!