bad aji

noun

Etymology

From bad and Japanese 味 (aji), or perhaps directly from the Japanese expression 味が悪い (aji ga warui), literally “the flavour is bad”, i.e. “there is bad aji”.

  1. borrowed from

Definitions

  1. A lingering weakness in a player’s position in some part of the board, which may trouble…

    A lingering weakness in a player’s position in some part of the board, which may trouble them, especially by facilitating a later attack, by hampering their play there or by the effort required to repair it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bad aji. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA