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I was reading through the Lore section of a newly released item in Fate/Grand
Order and came across a strange suffix/conjugation to a word.

> 胸を張って、 **弱っちろい** 世界のために戦え。

The translation given for the word was "feeble", which makes sense due to the
usage of 弱.

I searched around a bit and couldn't find a particular meaning, however I did
find a similar word in 生っちろい (meaning: pale or pasty), in which the ちろい part
appears to actually be 白い.

My major questions are:

  * What is the significance of っちろい
  * Are both of these っちろい the same (in both meaning and kanji) in both words
  * Why not use 弱い instead? (Is it perhaps stylistic in choice, dialect based, etc.)
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Meaning of っちろい
> 「弱{よわ}っ **ちろい** 」

is the colloquial pronunciation of:

> 「弱っ **ちょろい** 」

and I assure you that 「ちょろい」 is even listed in Jisho.

<https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%A1%E3%82%87%E3%82%8D%E3%81%84>

All by itself, 「ちょろい」means " **easy** ", " **slack** ", " **superficial** "
etc. Note that there is **_no kanji_** for the word and it has nothing to do
with 「白{しろ}い」. (I will come back to this point about 「白い」 at the end.)

With certain adjectives, however, 「ちょろい」 is attached like a suffix and when
used this way, it just emphasizes the meaning of the preceding adjective in a
very informal/colloquial way.

Those "compound adjectives" include: 「弱っちょろい」(" **very weak**
")、「甘{あま}っちょろい」{" **facile** ", " **optimistic** ", " **too green** "
etc.}、「生{なま}っちょろい」(" **half-hearted** "), etc. Honestly, I could not think of
another right now. You cannot attach it to every adjective.

Lastly, there are two different 「生っちろい」.

1) colloquial form of 「生っちょろい」 meaning "half-hearted" as I stated above.

2) colloquial form of 「生白{なまじろ}い」 meaning "pale-looking".
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