English Explanatory Dictionary

nakige

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears.

Word forms

nakige nakiges

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 泣きゲー (nakige, “crying game”), a compound of なき (naki, “crying”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game. Compare tearjerker.

Related words

crying game
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on N Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary