"gyaru-moji" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ギャル文字"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese ギャル文字",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Japanese ギャル文字.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gyaru-moji",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "gyaru-moji"
      },
      "expansion": "gyaru-moji (usually uncountable, plural gyaru-moji)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Aaron Marcus, “Advanced Interaction Modalities with Mobile Digital Content”, in Aaron Marcus, Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Riccardo Sala, editors, Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience, page 296:",
          "text": "In fact, newspaper accounts chronicle the rise of gyaru-moji (“girl-signs”), a “secret” texting language of symbols improvised by Japanese teenage girls.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, page 136:",
          "text": "Today, the same kind of inventiveness is seen in SMS gyarumoji ('girl-talk'), which is a mixture of Japanese syllables, numerals, emoticons, and other characters.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nanette Gottlieb, “Technology and the writing system in Japan”, in Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan, editors, Language Life in Japan, 5. The cell phone era:",
          "text": "Gyarumoji (gal characters) are designed to hinder the decoding of text by those not in the know. They usually take the form of an unusual mixture of scripts (e.g. Japanese, the alphabet, Roman numerals, the Greek alphabet) with typographic, mathematical, and other symbols",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of cryptic Japanese writing that substitutes similar-looking characters for the characters intended"
      ],
      "id": "en-gyaru-moji-en-noun-Z5n~kDeK",
      "links": [
        [
          "cryptic",
          "cryptic"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Zheng Yan, Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior, page 1437:",
          "text": "For example, the phonetic symbol に (ni) can be written in gyaru moji as |=, I=, (=, or L=",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The characters or symbols used for such substitutions"
      ],
      "id": "en-gyaru-moji-en-noun-BvHkxfxw",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "gyarumoji"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "gyaru moji"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "gyaru-moji"
  ],
  "word": "gyaru-moji"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English indeclinable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Japanese",
    "English terms derived from Japanese",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ギャル文字"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese ギャル文字",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Japanese ギャル文字.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gyaru-moji",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "gyaru-moji"
      },
      "expansion": "gyaru-moji (usually uncountable, plural gyaru-moji)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Aaron Marcus, “Advanced Interaction Modalities with Mobile Digital Content”, in Aaron Marcus, Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Riccardo Sala, editors, Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience, page 296:",
          "text": "In fact, newspaper accounts chronicle the rise of gyaru-moji (“girl-signs”), a “secret” texting language of symbols improvised by Japanese teenage girls.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, page 136:",
          "text": "Today, the same kind of inventiveness is seen in SMS gyarumoji ('girl-talk'), which is a mixture of Japanese syllables, numerals, emoticons, and other characters.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nanette Gottlieb, “Technology and the writing system in Japan”, in Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan, editors, Language Life in Japan, 5. The cell phone era:",
          "text": "Gyarumoji (gal characters) are designed to hinder the decoding of text by those not in the know. They usually take the form of an unusual mixture of scripts (e.g. Japanese, the alphabet, Roman numerals, the Greek alphabet) with typographic, mathematical, and other symbols",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of cryptic Japanese writing that substitutes similar-looking characters for the characters intended"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cryptic",
          "cryptic"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Zheng Yan, Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior, page 1437:",
          "text": "For example, the phonetic symbol に (ni) can be written in gyaru moji as |=, I=, (=, or L=",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The characters or symbols used for such substitutions"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gyarumoji"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyaru moji"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "gyaru-moji"
  ],
  "word": "gyaru-moji"
}