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面倒くさい [spec1] 面倒臭い [ichi1] メンド臭い [sK] めんど臭い [sK]
めんどくさい [spec1] めんどうくさい [ichi1] メンドくさい [sk]
1. [adj-i] [uk]
▶ bothersome
▶ tiresome
▶ bother to do
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2837327 おとろしい 1. bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
  ⇐ see: 2838110 面倒くさがる【めんどうくさがる】 1. to begrudge doing; to find bothersome
  ⇐ see: 2078360 面倒い【めんどい】 1. troublesome; bothersome

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2025-12-10 20:03:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2025-12-10 19:36:50  parfait8
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ メンド臭い  │ 2,489 │ 65.2% │
│ めんど臭い  │   975 │ 25.5% │
│ めんどう臭い │   354 │  9.3% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -10,0 +11,8 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>メンド臭い</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>めんど臭い</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
3. A* 2025-12-09 18:01:52  parfait8
  Refs:
メンドくさい	11,563
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19,4 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>メンドくさい</reb>
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
2. A 2015-04-10 03:06:32  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2015-04-10 00:28:46  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Daijr, GG5, etc. N-grams:
面倒くさい	742704
面倒臭い	174916
めんどうくさい	25104
めんどくさい	1133520
  Comments:
The refs prefer めんどうくさい, but people mostly write めんどくさい.
  Diff:
@@ -13,2 +13 @@
-<reb>めんどうくさい</reb>
-<re_pri>ichi1</re_pri>
+<reb>めんどくさい</reb>
@@ -18 +17,2 @@
-<reb>めんどくさい</reb>
+<reb>めんどうくさい</reb>
+<re_pri>ichi1</re_pri>
@@ -22 +22,2 @@
-<gloss>bother(some) to do</gloss>
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
+<gloss>bothersome</gloss>
@@ -23,0 +25 @@
+<gloss>bother to do</gloss>

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