Etymology

nuru

N1U1R1U1

Today it means: A Japanese form of body-to-body massage in which the masseur and client are both nude and coated in a gel traditionally made from nori seaweed. Full definition →

Japanese ぬる
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromぬる
  2. English todaynuru

Japanese ぬる (literally “slippery”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.