ぼけっとboh-KET-toh[bo̞ke̞tto̞]
gazing into the middle distance with nothing at all going on inside
Closest in English: staring, spacing-out, zoning-out. None of them covers it.
Japanese keeps a mimetic word for the blank stare: boketto suru, to sit and let the head empty out. It is what happens at a train window when the fields go by and nothing at all is required of you. English treats the same face as a fault and calls it gormless.
A real game of this word, in 18 seconds.
Played by 73 people.
Three in five placed it in Japanese straight away; most of the others went for Korean.
The moment cost the most points.
The most common guess was “daydreaming”: close, but not it.
Of those who bet on the translation, nobody got it exactly.
Harder than most words so far.
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