Etymology

gaki

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Today it means: A restless ghost in Japanese mythology. Full definition →

Japanese 餓鬼
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from餓鬼
  2. English todaygaki

Borrowed from Japanese 餓鬼 (gaki).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.