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- キャンドルサービス・キャンドル・サービス
noun:
- candlelight service (e.g. in a church)
- ceremony during a wedding reception where the bride and the groom go from table to table lighting a candle at each
- 刷り込む☆【すりこむ】すり込む・刷込むirr. Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to insert (an illustration); to stencil (a pattern); to print on; to instill (thought, impression, etc.); to imprint (e.g. on one's subconscious) ➜ 刷り込み
- 一段落☆【いちだんらく・ひとだんらく】ひと段落【ひとだんらく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; completing the first stage (of the work)
noun:
- one paragraph
今回のプロジェクトが終わって、やっと一段落したって感じだね。 Now that the project has come to an end, I feel like I've finally come to a resting-place.
- ろくろ首【ろくろくび】轆轤首
noun:
- rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)
- ろくろっ首【ろくろっくび】轆轤っ首
noun:
- rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore) ➜ 轆轤首
- 横レス【よこレス】
noun:
- message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang
- 保温☆【ほおん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- retaining warmth; keeping heat in; heat insulation
USBバスパワーで暖かい飲み物の入ったカップを保温しておくという製品が発売された。 A product has been launched that uses the power from the USB to keep hot drinks warm.
- 畜生☆【ちくしょう・ちきしょう】
noun:
- beast (i.e. any animal other than man)
- person reborn into the animal realm - Buddhism term ➜ 畜生道
- brute (i.e. a contemptible human being)
interjection:
- damn it; damn; Christ; for Christ's sake - usually written using kana alone
- 田作り【たづくり】
noun:
- small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
- tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
- 名誉白人【めいよはくじん】
noun:
- honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites
- 俊足☆【しゅんそく】駿足
noun / ~の noun:
- fast runner
- swift horse; fleet steed
- talented person; brilliant person [俊足]
- 上様【うえさま・うえざま・かみさま】
noun:
- emperor; shogun
- honored person (honoured)
- (another person's) wife [かみさま] - polite language
- 明き盲【あきめくら】明盲irr.
noun:
- illiterate or blind person; person who sees without understanding; amaurosis - sensitive
それが見えないようなら明盲だ。 You must be blind as a bat if you couldn't see it.
- DQN【ドキュン・ドキュソirr.】
noun:
- dumb-ass - slang - derogatory term
- delinquent; violent person; rough-looking person - slang - derogatory term
- 喉元過ぎれば熱さを忘れる【のどもとすぎればあつさをわすれる】
expression:
- danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb
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