Vocab Info

N1 Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), No-adjective

おっちょこちょいcareless person, scatterbrain, birdbrain

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    1. Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), No-adjective

      1.

      careless person, scatterbrain, birdbrain, hasty person

    All Forms

    おっちょこちょいオッチョコチョイ

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      おっちょこちょい(ひと)沢山(たくさん)失敗(しっぱい)をする。

      A careless person tends to make a lot of mistakes.

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      (あに)おっちょこちょいだから、(たよ)甲斐(がい)()い。

      My brother is such a scatterbrain; he's just not reliable.

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      おっちょこちょい新人(しんじん)がまた失敗(しっぱい)をしでかしました。

      The scatterbrained new-hire messed up again.

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      おっちょこちょい(はは)がヘマをしている様子(ようす)想像(そうぞう)(かた)くない。

      It's easy to picture my scatterbrained mom making another blunder.

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      (とら)えようによっては、(ちち)おっちょこちょいではなく(つね)(いそが)しいだけです。

      Depending on how you look at it, my dad isn't scatterbrained, he's just always busy.

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