yobai

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ancient Japanese custom in which a young unmarried man would go out at night and silently enter the house of a young unmarried woman for sexual intercourse, sometimes as a prelude to marriage.

Word forms

yobai

Etymology

From Japanese 夜這い (literally “night crawling”).

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