yobai

English

Etymology

Japanese 夜這い (literally “night crawling”)

Noun

yobai (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An ancient Japanese custom in which a young unmarried man would go out at night and silently enter the house of a young unmarried woman for sexual intercourse, sometimes as a prelude to marriage.
    Synonym: night crawling

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