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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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..
Use yobai when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yobai means (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..
Common synonyms include night crawling.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use yobai where its definition matches the intended context.
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