Japanese Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:よだれかけWikipedia jaEtymology Unknown. Perhaps from the name of a clothing manufacturer or brand,[1] or from English sty.[2] Pronunciation IPA(key): [sɨta̠i] Noun スタイ • (sutai) Synonym of よだれかけ (yodarekake, “bib”) References [1]2004. “スタイ” in Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyūsha. [2]“スタイ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.