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ぼうぼう

bou-bou

Overgrown, wildly unkempt

Describes vegetation or hair that has grown wild and uncontrolled. Often used for neglected gardens or untrimmed beards.

💡Seeing an abandoned garden — 'The weeds have grown bou-bou in the yard.'

Example

庭の草がぼうぼうに伸びている。

The weeds in the garden have grown bou-bou wild.

Quiz yourself

After two months away, the garden was ___ with weeds.

二か月留守にしたら、庭が雑草で○○になっていた。

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