noun:

• post-retirement job; work done by a retired person where earning an income is not a primary concern - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• difficult to get into
• not be easily influenced into joining some mood or activity Antonym: ノリが良い【ノリがよい】

expression:

• pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand ➜ 見て見ぬ振り

noun:

• feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

expression:

• you're not making any sense; can I have that in Japanese? - slang

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• recklessly; thoughtlessly; carelessly; readily; blithely; willingly; easily - onomatopoeia
• pamperingly; indulgently; carefully (not angering) - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• shoo!
• heave-ho
• hallo; hello

noun:

• Hui (people) ［ホイホイ］ ➜ 回族
• novice; beginner - archaism

noun:

• cervicobrachial syndrome; indicates pain, swelling, weakness and/or numbness in the neck/shoulder region, used when specific diagnosis is not known

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

adverb / ~と adverb:

• little-by-little; gradually; slowly; soon - onomatopoeia ➜ ぼつぼつ

adjectival noun:

• not bad; passable; so-so - Kansai dialect

noun:

• break in the snow; patch of ground not covered in snow

expression:

• do not mind doing; gladly do; can do; might as well do

noun:

• listener
• person with normal hearing (i.e. not deaf); hearing person

expression / adverb:

• still more; to say nothing of; not to mention
• still less - with neg. verb

noun:

• brow; forehead ➜ 凸【でこ】
• prominent forehead; beetle brow
• not catching anything (in fishing) - colloquialism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to seek results, not show; to discard the flower for the fruit [literal] - idiom

noun:

• acquisition or forfeiture; acquisition (question of whether or not something is acquired) - from 取得 and 喪失

noun:

• person from any part of Japan that is not also part of Okinawa - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 内地

noun:

• free price; price determined by the seller, not the distributor or government

expression:

• if not ... (negative conditional) - also にゃあ ➜ ねば
• for (in regard to); in order to ➜ には

~の noun:

• for reference only; in-library use only; not for loan

noun:

• person with normal hearing (i.e. not deaf); hearing person

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・其方
• that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that
• that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener) - あちら is pol.
• there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation)

expression / adjective:

• doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary - after verb phrase

suffix:

• unless one ...; if one does not ... - colloquialism ➜ 無ければ
• cannot do without something - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 無くてはいけない【なくてはいけない】
• have to do - after negative base of verb ➜ 無くてはいけない【なくてはいけない】

expression:

• let's put formalities aside; let's not speak so stiffly