Example sentences for: edokko

How can you use “edokko” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sneeze in the middle of the night and your Edokko neighbor will demand the next morning that you take better care of yourself; stay home with a fever and she will be over by noon with a bowl of soup.

  • An Edokko craftsman would rather lose a commission than take any guff from a customer who doesn’t know good work when he sees it.

  • Ignore the proprieties — or offend the pride of an Edokko — and he will let you know about it, in no uncertain terms; respect his sense of values and you make a friend for life.

  • Edokko are suckers for sentimentality and for ninjo: the web of small favors and kindnesses that bind them together.

  • Edokko quarrel in a language all their own, an earthy local dialect as profane and expressive as Brooklynese.


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