POCCHI-RI ぽっちり
Meanings
① Appearance of very little and slight in quantity and degree.
② The way it floats small and stands out.
Examples
① Nowadays, I can’t buy anything with a little more than 100 yen in pocket money.
いまどき、小遣いで１００円ぽっちりじゃ、何も買えないよ。
② With such a thin shirt, your nipples will show through.
そんな薄手のシャツじゃ、乳首がぽっちり浮いて見えてしまうよ。
Dogmatic Opinion
“Pochi”, “Potchi”, etc. evoke the shape of a button, and thus “Pocchiri” also evokes the image of a round, small object.
To put it simply, the tip of the nipple is representative of “Pocchiri”.
Proximate Expression
a little bit
