ZUPPU-RI ずっぷり
Meanings
1. Describes a blade such as a knife or spear penetrating deeply into something soft, sometimes evoking the dull sound of the penetration.
2. Describes a person or object being fully immersed in water or another liquid.
Examples
1. I hated my husband so much that I plunged a kitchen knife deep into his back.
夫があまりにも憎かったので、背中から包丁をずっぷりと刺しました。
Dogmatic Opinion
For sense 2, DOPPU-RI is the much more common word.
Still, ZUPPU-RI makes me imagine something sinking with a ZUBU-ZUBU sound. That sound also suits the image of the narrow tip of a blade penetrating deep into flesh.
Because situations like sense 1 are thankfully not part of ordinary life, and because other words commonly replace ZUPPU-RI in its other senses, this expression may gradually become less familiar.
It is very close to DOPPU-RI. Across the senses, the common physical idea is penetration or immersion to considerable depth.
Proximate Expression
submerged
immersed
soaked
drenched
sopping
Related Words
For Japanese Learners
For a blade, stab deeply into, plunge deep into, or sink deep into may work. For water, fully immersed or submerged. ZUPPU-RI is uncommon today, and DOPPU-RI is generally more familiar for immersion.
