オーバー

オーバー · oobaa · JLPT N4 · noun

greatcoat

🧥 オーバー = English over, borrowed whole: overcoat, or going over the limit

A loanword from English over. Japanese stretches both vowels: oo-baa. It covers the coat worn over your clothes (short for overcoat), going over a limit as in budget over, and overdoing a reaction, which is where the sense of exaggeration comes from.

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