Illustration: Six friends crowd around a takoyaki griddle in a Japanese apartment dining area. Several speak at once with open mouths, broad smiles, and hands raised in overlapping gestures.

わいわい

waiwai

noisily, boisterously

Example sentences

子こどもたちが庭にわでわいわい遊あそんでいる。
The children are playing noisily in the garden.
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会議かいぎの後のち、みんなでわいわい話はなした。
After the meeting, everyone chatted noisily.
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友達ともだちとわいわい夕飯ゆうはんを作つくった。
I made dinner with my friends amid lively chatter.
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