Offensive/negative meaning of 雑草 Context: a boxer called Hyodo is going to fight against an opponent called Yanagi, whose nickname is Sniper. A friend of Hyodo tells him not to worry and then says this: > **** I get from the context that it has an offensive or negative value, but what is its specific meaning? Here you can see the whole page. Thank you for your help!

The original meaning of {} is, of course, "weed".

When used to describe a person, however, it refers to a non-star or non-elite type whose name no one knew at the beginning. The term is most often, if not exclusively, used to refer to athletes of mediocre ability.

Those types, however, occasionally end up very successful for their "weed-like" ineradicability.

Please note that it is **not** offensive to call oneself , but to call another person can be.

> "Even though he has been called 'the Sniper' with no matches whatsoever in Asia, that guy was originally a pretty run-of-the-mill boxer."

{}, a notable baseball pitcher who has played both in Japan and the U.S. successfully, for instance, is known to write []{} (literally, "weed spirit") alongside his name when he gives autographs.

even won the {} in 1999.

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