Meanings
① The state in which something is fragile and breaks easily.
The sudden death of a healthy person.
② The sound of a horse’s footsteps as it walks slowly. clip clop.
Examples
① A person who was fine until yesterday died suddenly.
昨日まで元気だった人が、ぽっくり死んだ。
② As a child, we played with a toy that sounded like a horse’s footsteps called “a can pokkuri”.
子ども時代は、缶ぽっくりという馬の足音のような音のするおもちゃで遊んだ。
Dogmatic Opinion
In the sense of breaking, “Pokkiri” and “Bokkiri” are used.
A healthy elderly person dies suddenly one day without suffering.
The word “Pokkuri” is strongly associated with “death.”
However, no one has ever witnessed a person who died “Pokkuri”.
I don’t think we would describe a young person’s sudden death as a “Pokkuri”.
Probably a limited representation of over 30s.
In this sense, he would need to be old enough to exude “fragility” so that it would be considered inevitable that he would break.
My ideal way to die is to “die Pokkuri( I just wanna go quickly)” is everyone’s goal.
It is interesting that the horse’s footsteps, Pokkuri and clip clop, are similar.
