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Texture & Touch

ぽろぽろ

poro-poro

Crumbling apart easily

Something breaking into small pieces and falling apart — dry soil, old plaster, or crumbly cookies. Suggests fragile dryness.

💡Eating a dry cookie — 'The cookie is so dry it's falling apart poro-poro.'

Example

クッキーがぽろぽろ崩れる。

The cookie crumbles poro-poro.

Quiz yourself

The old wall was ___ crumbling when I touched it.

古い壁を触ったら○○と崩れてきた。

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Intermediate