noun:

• baldness; bald head
• children's hairstyle of short untied hair; children with short untied hair ［かぶろ・かむろ］
• young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period) ［かぶろ・かむろ］ ➜ 太夫・天神
• idiot; moron - derogatory term - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• only
• prostitute attached to the exclusive service of a single member of the Occupation Forces (WW2) ［オンリー］

noun:

• salesperson; shop assistant; hawker; peddler; vendor ➜ 販売員
• male prostitute - archaism

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism

noun:

• second blooming (in a season); reflowering; reflorescence ➜ 返り咲き【かえりざき】
• return to working by a prostitute, kabuki actor, etc. - archaism

noun:

• court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period)
• separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period) ➜ 曹司
• room for a very low class prostitute
• very low class prostitute ➜ 局女郎

expression / ichidan verb:

• to talk; to call; to invite
• to call a geisha or prostitute over

noun:

• multi-tiered food boxes that can be carried by hand - abbreviation ➜ 提げ重箱
• female prostitute who carried multi-tiered food boxes about and peddled foodstuffs (Meiwa and Anei eras) - archaism

noun:

• children - archaism
• child - archaism - honorific language
• young male prostitute - archaism
• prostitute - archaism - Kantō dialect

noun:

• regular (customer)
• client who frequently visits the same prostitute

noun:

• women who assist bathers at hot-springs resorts
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism

expression / noun:

• having one's own premises ➜ 部屋持ちの親方【へやもちのおやかた】
• Edo-period prostitute successful enough to have her own room in an establishment - abbr. of 部屋持ち女郎

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• flying fish roe ➜ 飛魚
• travelling male homosexual prostitute - archaism

noun:

• court lady with her own private chamber or office - archaism
• low-class prostitute (Edo period)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to redeem; to take out of pawn
• to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer) ➜ 身請け

noun:

• grey nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus)
• nightjar (any bird of family Caprimulgidae); goatsucker
• streetwalker; low class prostitute (Edo period) ［夜鷹］
• soba vendors who walk around at night; soba sold by these vendors ［夜鷹］ - abbreviation ➜ 夜鷹蕎麦

noun:

• island
• territory (of a prostitute, organized crime gang, etc.); turf - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• wiles; trick; artifice; coquetry
• lover (male) (esp. of a prostitute) ➜ 間夫

noun / ~する noun:

• changing (one's job, loyalties, stance, etc.); switching over
• changing quarters (geisha, prostitute, etc.)

noun:

• long interlude (in folk songs or koto music)
• wiles (e.g. used by a prostitute to lure customers); finesse; trick

expression:

• caged bird
• person whose freedom has been restricted (esp. a prostitute, mistress, concubine, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• new; newly made

noun:

• unmarried woman of about 20
• newly-married woman
• new prostitute that has not started working; attendant of an older prostitute

noun:

• vocation; lifework; calling
• sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period) ➜ 天神