Re: Edict : ijikeru

Paul Blay <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>The current Edict entry

>いじける (v1) to grow timid (from an inferiority complex)

>seems strangely specific and (the latter half at least)
>doesn't bear much relation to how I've seen it in use.

>広辞苑 has
>1. To cower and freeze from fear.
>2. To become numb from cold.
>3. ひねくれて臆病になる。
>(The last one seems to be how I've seen it used but
>I can't think of how to put it in English.
>"Contrarily become a coward" sounds terrible.

GG5 has:
1: (to) cower; shrink 《out of fear》; lose one's nerve; become [grow] timid.
2: (to) become perverse [twisted, warped].

Sanseido agrees.

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