Etymology

ero-guro

Today it means: A Japanese literary and artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence. Full definition →

Japanese エログロ
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromエログロ
  2. English todayero-guro

Borrowed from Japanese エログロ (eroguro), ultimately from English erotic + grotesque.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.