noun:

• sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl of rice (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 一本箸

expression / noun:

• voice acting; appearing in a movie, TV show, etc. as a voice actor ➜ 出演

noun:

• (in a) rough Tokyo dialect; (having a) crude mouth; vulgar language; crude speaking ➜ べらんめえ口調【べらんめえくちょう】

noun:

• (in a) rough Tokyo dialect; (having a) crude mouth; vulgar language; crude speaking ➜ べらんめえ調

noun:

• dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris)
• snoop (i.e. a detective, a spy, etc.)
• loser; asshole - derogatory term

prefix noun:

• counterfeit; inferior; useless; wasteful

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• listening (to a lecture, hearing, parliament session, etc.); attending (without participating); sitting in (e.g. on a meeting); observing

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

expression:

• a burnt child dreads the fire; once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience - proverb

noun:

• fatwa; legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue - From Arabic "fatwa"

noun:

• ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

expression:

• woman who has lost a man's affection or interest (as does a fan when summer turns to autumn)

noun:

• umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

noun:

• always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person) - four character idiom

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

noun:

• in a day; in a brief space of time - four character idiom

noun:

• pulling out of a market; withdrawing from a market

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text

noun:

• godown within a compound; warehouse within a building complex - obscure term

noun:

• hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handgrip