Etymology

kakegoe

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Today it means: Melodramatic calls from an audience in kabuki theatre or as part of call-and-response singing in Japanese folk music. Full definition →

Japanese かけごえ
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  1. Japanese · borrowed fromかけごえ“hung voice”
  2. English todaykakegoe

From Japanese かけごえ (“hung voice”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.