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女三人寄れば姦しい； 女三人寄ればかしましい [sK] ； 女三人よれば姦しい [sK] ； 女三人よればかしましい [sK]
【 おんなさんにんよればかしましい 】
1. [exp,adj-i] [proverb]
《from three 女 kanji forming 姦》
▶ three women make a market
▶ many women, many words
▶ [lit] three women gathering creates a racket
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2417940 女三人寄れば姦し【おんなさんにんよればかしまし】 1. three women make a market

Conjugations


History:
7. A 2024-02-26 10:35:36  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6. A* 2024-02-26 04:38:56  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
〈女／おんな〉〈三人／さんにん／サンニン〉〈寄／よ〉れば〈姦／かしま〉しい

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┬─────┬───────╮
│ 女三人寄れば姦しい　　 │ 524 │ 56.6% │ - (daijr/s, koj, kanjipedia, jitenon, etc.)
│ 女三人寄ればかしましい │ 318 │ 34.3% │ - sK
│ 女三人よれば姦しい　　 │  49 │  5.3% │ - add, sK
│ 女三人よればかしましい │  35 │  3.8% │ - sK
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┴─────┴───────╯
  Comments: 
I think displaying one form is probably enough.
  Diff: 
@@ -8,0 +9,5 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>女三人よれば姦しい</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +17 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -22 +28 @@
-<gloss>many women many words</gloss>
+<gloss>many women, many words</gloss>
5. A 2022-08-01 04:02:20  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
Add POS to proverbs
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff: 
@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
4. A 2021-03-09 03:17:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Diff: 
@@ -19 +19 @@
-<s_inf>derived from three 女 characters forming 姦</s_inf>
+<s_inf>from three 女 kanji forming 姦</s_inf>
3. A* 2021-02-21 22:51:39  Opencooper
  Refs: 
* gg5/wisdom also have "many women many words"
* koj, imidas, 三省堂必携故事ことわざ・慣用句辞典, and 明鏡ことわざ成句使い方辞典 all note the visual referencing with 
the kanji

女三人寄れば姦しい	524
女三人寄ればかしましい	318 <-- luminous/saito
女三人よればかしましい	35 <-- gg5/chuujiten/wisdom
  Comments: 
Supposedly the full phrases in English are "three women and a goose ..." and "..., many geese many turds"... 
Nevertheless, not really known phrases in English anymore, so needs an explanation.
  Diff: 
@@ -5,0 +6,6 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>女三人寄ればかしましい</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>女三人よればかしましい</keb>
@@ -12,0 +19 @@
+<s_inf>derived from three 女 characters forming 姦</s_inf>
@@ -13,0 +21,2 @@
+<gloss>many women many words</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="lit">three women gathering creates a racket</gloss>
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