BOSSA-RI ぼっさり
Meanings
Describes hair, fur, grass, or other growth as untidily thick, shaggy, or overgrown from lack of grooming or maintenance.
Examples
As I get older, my eyebrows become bushy and unruly unless I trim them regularly.
加齢のせいか、定期的に整えないと眉毛がぼっさりしてくる
Dogmatic Opinion
BOSSA-RI describes growth that has been left to do whatever it wants.
Hair, eyebrows, grass, or vegetation has grown without being trimmed, groomed, or controlled, and the speaker views the result negatively.
The important point is not simply abundance. It is unmanaged abundance.
Proximate Expression
untidy
unkempt
disheveled
uncombed
straggly
Related Words
For Japanese Learners
Shaggy, bushy, overgrown, unruly, and unkempt are natural. Hair or eyebrows can be bushy or unkempt; vegetation overgrown. This page does not use BOSSA-RI for a person standing around absent-mindedly.
