NSFW Interesting NG words you’ve come across while living in Japan?

Tonight my girlfriend and I were watching a video about how to make a blueberry pie. In the video, the host was talking, in English, about how to prep the pie pan.

When my girlfriend heard the phrase “pie pan” she sort of scrunched her face and looked at me funny. I pointed at the pie pan and said “that’s a pie pan.” Then she was like “OH….” because that’s not what that word means here.

Apparently, “パイパン” has a very different meaning here. The dictionary definition was funny. I won’t say it just in case, but every so often I run into Japanese no-no words.

Has anyone else run into strange or colorful Japanese words while living here?

12 comments
  1. Shaved pubic area was googles response to anyone else wanting to know, so I guess shaved pussy. Oh no, I said shaved pussy on the internet

  2. I remember I was teaching at a high school, and we had an English cooking class. One student held a pie pan up and asked me how to say it in English. I almost blurted it out, but saved it by saying “pie……holder”.

  3. Imagine my surprise when I was searching for a pie pan on Amazon.co.jp to make pumpkin pie last week.

  4. Wait till your girlfriend hears about the new company that’s spearheading innovations in men’s hygiene, Man Co. Man Co. recently started a new ad campaign called “Clean Man Co smells great!” that highlights their new moisturizing product, Man Co Juice.

  5. There’s that bald-headed survival talent on tv, Abareru-kun or whatever. I accidentally called him Abazure-kun once. Luckily that was at home and not in public.

    Also, the national mint is *not* Zenritsusen. It’s Zouheikyoku. They sound totally different but I almost say prostate every time I’m talking about coins :/

  6. While I was still working in the US, I walked in on a class that was 1/5 Japanese girls being aghast at the lad from Cameroon saying cheers in French (chin chin) for some reason. I took him aside for a moment, explained the gasps, and everyone learned how to say dong in Japanese.

  7. Always thought 素人童貞 was a funny word. It means ‘amateur virgin’, i.e. someone who has only had sex with professionals (prostitutes).

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