もどき

Japanese

Alternative spellings
擬き擬抵牾牴牾

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もどき [mòdókíꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[1]^[2]
(Tokyo) もどき [móꜜdòkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
IPA^(key): [mo̞do̞kʲi]

Noun

もどき • (modoki)

擬き: fake, imitation, mimicry

Suffix

もどき • (-modoki)

擬き, 擬: lookalike; similar

Derived terms

雁擬(がんもど)き (ganmodoki)
ガビアルモドキ (gabiaru-modoki)
スッポンモドキ (suppon-modoki)
藤擬(ふじもど)き (fuji modoki)

Verb

もどき • (modoki)

擬き: stem or continuative form of もどく (modoku) [godan]

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN