kanto girl

短语

词形变化

kanto girls 复数 kanto girls

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An office girl.

    俚语

词源

From kanto boy, but the latter term was replaced with girl as a female equivalent, whereas the former term was originally from Japanese 官庁(かんちょう) (kanchō, “government office”), borrowed in the Philippines during WW2 according to Potet (2016), but it was eventually replaced with Tagalog kanto (“corner, especially of two streets”), which was reinterpreted to refer to an "office corner".

来源:wiktionary