I've seen 雄臭い used in some articles and posts but couldn't find the hiragana pronunciation, does anyone what it is?


Based on the kanji and what I gathered I'm assuming it means "smells manly" or
"reeks of a man". The thing is I couldn't find any hiragana reading on the
kanji and wanted to know if anyone knew how it's to be pronounced.




It's おすくさい.

  * -くさい is a kind of suffix that attaches to various nouns. See [this search result](https://jisho.org/search/*%E8%87%AD%E3%81%84) for common or idiomatic ones. This suffix is productive, and you can express "smelling of ～" by saying ～臭い. For example, 汗臭い ("smells sweaty"), 獣臭い ("smells like a beast"), トイレ臭い ("smells like a toilet"), and so on.
  * 雄 as an independent word meaning "male" is read おす. See [this entry](https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9B%84). 雄臭い typically refers to animal-like body odor of males. Without any context, I would imagine the smell one would feel in an old locker room or a sumo wrestlers' training room. 男臭い refers to the same type of smell, but 雄臭い would sound more vulgar because おす/めす is mainly used with animals.

