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Short for 親不知歯 (oyashirazu-ba, literally “parents not-knowing tooth”). a wisdom tooth (from the likelihood that the wisdom teeth do not erupt until after no longer in daily contact with one's parents, due to moving or death)

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親知らず

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親知らず

Hiragana
おやしらず
Noun
abbreviation alt-of historical archaic possibly regional
Japanese Meaning
奥歯の一種で、思春期以降に生えてくる歯。親が子の成長を知らない(親元を離れた)ころに生えることからこの名がある。一般に「智歯」「第三大臼歯」とも呼ばれる。
Easy Japanese Meaning
おとなになってからいちばんうしろにはえてくる、だいきんのはのこと
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Short for 親不知歯 (oyashirazu-ba, literally “parents not-knowing tooth”). a wisdom tooth (from the likelihood that the wisdom teeth do not erupt until after no longer in daily contact with one's parents, due to moving or death)

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ignorance of one's parentage; such a person who does not know their parents

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(historical) a specific kind of formal adoption during the Edo period, wherein the adoptee would have no knowledge of their birth parents; such an adoptee

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(regional, possibly archaic) a section of coast with dangerous surf (by analogy from having to pay all attention to surviving the conditions, and not having a moment to spare to think of one's parents)

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