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怖いもの見たさ；恐いもの見たさ；怖い物見たさ；恐い物見たさ
【こわいものみたさ】

[exp,n]
▶ curiosity of fear
▶ urge to look at something frightening
▶ wanting to take a peek at something unpleasant

History:

11.	A 2020-04-23 20:53:40 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Thanks. I should have been more careful...
10.	A* 2020-04-23 15:54:01
	Diff:	@@ -23,2 +23,2 @@ -<gloss>urge to look at something frighting</gloss> -<gloss>wanting to take a peak at something unpleasant</gloss> +<gloss>urge to look at something frightening</gloss> +<gloss>wanting to take a peek at something unpleasant</gloss>
9.	A 2020-04-21 23:43:39 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
8.	A* 2020-04-21 23:30:19 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	It doesn't refer to the act of looking. I don't think we should have "rubbernecking" as a gloss.
	Diff:	@@ -22 +21,0 @@ -<gloss>looking at something scary</gloss> @@ -24 +23,2 @@ -<gloss>rubbernecking</gloss> +<gloss>urge to look at something frighting</gloss> +<gloss>wanting to take a peak at something unpleasant</gloss>
7.	A* 2020-04-21 00:51:40 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	GG5: the attraction of the fearful; the urge to be frightened; the curiosity of fear. (Example: 怖いもの見たさにちょっとのぞいてみた. Curiosity 「overcame [was stronger than] fear, and I took a look.) Daijr: こわいものは、かえって好奇心を刺激されて見たくなるということ。
	Comments:	That previous "the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant" certainly matched what the references are saying, in a way that is missing from simple "rubbernecking" which loses the scary/frightening aspect.
	Diff:	@@ -20,0 +21,3 @@ +<pos>&n;</pos> +<gloss>looking at something scary</gloss> +<gloss>curiosity of fear</gloss>
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6.	A* 2020-04-20 14:50:50 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	From the editorial policy: "it is OK to add a few words of extra information in parentheses after the translation. The situations where this is done include: ... short explanations for technical words or words where the meaning might not be clear to a literate user;" I do think that "rubbernecking" is a word an absolute majority of literate native speakers will be familiar with.
5.	A* 2020-04-20 13:08:50 Nicolas Maia
	Comments:	How common is the word rubbernecking? If I had just seen this at jisho.org I've have no idea what it meant. I'd have the second gloss stay.
4.	A* 2020-04-20 12:22:12 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Doesn't seem necessary to me.
	Diff:	@@ -22 +21,0 @@ -<gloss>the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant</gloss>
3.	A 2020-04-20 02:02:32 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2.	A* 2020-04-19 10:37:43 Nicolas Maia
	Comments:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts 怖いもの見たさ 64999 恐いもの見たさ 10948 怖い物見たさ 6682 恐い物見たさ 898
	Diff:	@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@ +<k_ele> +<keb>怖いもの見たさ</keb> +</k_ele> @@ -8 +11,4 @@ -<keb>怖いもの見たさ</keb> +<keb>怖い物見たさ</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>恐い物見たさ</keb>
1.	A 2007-10-06 00:00:00
	Comments:	Entry created

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