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<entry id="2153981" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1823040</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>くそ勉強</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>クソ勉強</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>糞勉強</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>くそべんきょう</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<pos>&vs;</pos>
<misc>&sl;</misc>
<gloss>studying like crazy</gloss>
<gloss>cramming like a madman</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2021-10-27 04:53:33" stat="D" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>This seems of questionable value to me. I 
don't think it means to cram for an exam but 
just to study "fucking hard"</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-10-28 00:56:35" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>OTOH if you just go by the kanji you might think it means faecology or something like that. 
Given くそ as a prefix can mean both a lot and very little, perhaps it should stay.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>くそ勉強	182
糞勉強	72</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,2 +17,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;cram for an exam&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;concentrated study&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;obsc;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;cramming for an exam&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;studying really hard&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-10-28 02:00:20" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>There's actually quite a lot of hits for クソ勉強 in Google Books, seems to have been esp. common around the 1950s to 
1970s, but I find examples going back to 1912.
e.g. 
1927: "所詮クソ勉強"
1951: "父は、クソ勉強ということが大嫌いであった。試驗の前、たまに机に向っていると、『そんなクソ勉強する奴があるか。さあ出てこい』
とばかり、部屋からつれだし、クロケーに興じたり、時には相撲をとらせて喜んだりした。"
1957: "それだけに日ごろの勉強、情報収集が、勝負の分かれ目になる。もともと小学校以来、クソ勉強が板に付いている。"
1958: "学科の勉強ばかりしている者を、「クソ勉強」だの、「点取り虫」などと言って軽蔑した。" (we have 点取り虫 as an entry)
1958: "ところがそうはいっても、中学時代でもそうであったように、いわゆるクソ勉強度々あったと思われる"
1964: "そこでもし学校の成績がおちてきたら、私は皆さはない、暗記暗記のクソ勉強で入学する人であり"
1983: "これは小中学校時代のクソ勉強とはちがいます。あなたの血となり肉となり、精神を支え、勇気がわいてくる勉強です。"

I guess くそ+noun with the meaning "doing something to the extreme" is not all that common (not at all the results are 
vs use). The older usage in Google Books does seem "crystallized" as an expression meaning "studying hard", but on 
twitter there are also the occasional mention that seem to be of the "stupid/damn studying" variety. I don't think we 
have to cover that here though.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>くそ努力	No matches
クソ努力	No matches

クソ仕事	515
くそ仕事	145

(but this probably mostly refers to 意味のないクソ仕事)</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;クソ勉強&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -17,3 +20,2 @@
-&lt;misc&gt;&amp;obsc;&lt;/misc&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;cramming for an exam&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;studying really hard&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;studying like crazy&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;cramming like a madman&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-10-28 03:50:41" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>



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