noun:

• amah (foreign maid or nursemaid working in east Asia) - From Portuguese "ama"

noun / ~の noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady ➜ ご主人
• one's husband
• (one's) employer; (one's) master
• host; hostess

noun:

• spirit of a true artisan; (a craftsman's) pride in one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk
• Latin (language) ［ら］ - abbreviation ➜ 羅甸語

adjectival noun / noun:

• throwing one's weight around in a small group without knowing one's real worth in a larger world outside; being a big fish in a small pond - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• covering one's head with a handkerchief, scarf, etc.; tying a cloth around one's head
• feigning ignorance; shutting one's eyes (to)

noun:

• older unmarried woman; old maid; spinster - sensitive - From English "high miss"

noun:

• smith's assistant; assistant who hammers in response to a master smith's signal
• large hammer (used by a smith's assistant)

noun:

• Santa; Santa Claus; Saint Nicholas; Sinterklaas

noun / ~する noun:

• (the privilege to have) an audience (with one's lord, a dignitary, etc.); interview (with one's superior)
• one's debut (first) appearance; debut (of a new product, work of art, actor, etc.)
• trial service (of a servant)

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to meddle in
• to poke one's head (into a room)

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; water on a frog's face [literal]

noun:

• a family; a household; a home; one's family; whole family
• (one's own) style; school
• gang; (yazuka) family

noun:

• Mustelus (genus of smooth-hound sharks in the family Triakidae); from the Latin mustela meaning weasel

noun:

• maid headdress (e.g. white Alice band covered with lace) - From English "white brim"

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun:

• one's own effort; doing single-handedly
• a game (of go, shogi, etc.); a match
• a dance; a (musical) composition
• a company (e.g. of soldiers); a group; a party
• one hand

noun:

• old maid; frump; hag; old woman ➜ おばあさん

noun:

• kitchen maid - archaism ➜ お三どん【おさんどん】
• kitchen duties; cooking - archaism ➜ お三どん【おさんどん】

noun:

• kitchen maid - archaism ➜ お三【おさん】
• kitchen duties; cooking - archaism ➜ お三【おさん】

expression:

• a man's word is his bond; a man does not go back on what he's said - proverb ➜ 二言【にごん】

noun:

• belief that where there's a will, there's a way

expression:

• a diamond on a dunghill is still a diamond; quality is quality; an old eagle is better than a young crow; even if it's rotten, it's still sea bream [literal] - proverb

noun:

• picking up a bowl with one's right hand which is already holding one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) - obscure term

noun:

• servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)
• chivalrous man (c. Edo period)
• cubed tofu (often served cold) - abbreviation ➜ 奴豆腐
• kite shaped like a footman - abbreviation ➜ 奴凧
• Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants - abbreviation ➜ 奴頭
• enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime)

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - archaism - derogatory term