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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(countable) An adult woman who behaves childishly, especially a Japanese woman or a woman involved with Japanese culture..
While boy-crazy American girls labor at sophistication, Japanese women of marriageable age tend to act like girls, and are popularly called burikko—“pretending kids.”
A burikko is a grown woman who acts like a child. She may be sexually active, but she feigns innocence.
The author is reporting on the high-pitched voice frequently considered a stereotypical feature of the burikko, a derogatory Japanese label used to describe women who exhibit feigned naïveté.
Girls laciness is not in Japan Madonna-style lace but rather First Communion lace—but with a perky falseness sometimes called burikko, or false-innocent.
Use burikko when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Burikko means (countable) An adult woman who behaves childishly, especially a Japanese woman or a woman involved with Japanese culture..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
While boy-crazy American girls labor at sophistication, Japanese women of marriageable age tend to act like girls, and are popularly called burikko—“pretending kids.”
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