noun:

• identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin) - colloquialism

noun:

• kid; brat - archaism
• Edo term used to debase people from Kansai

interjection:

• no!; don't!; tsk!; used to scold small children and pets

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 逢う魔が時

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

noun:

• Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League organized to obtain freedom from French colonial rule)

noun:

• long (i.e. full-length) pants (as opposed to shorts)

noun:

• decorative string used to hold a kimono sash in place

noun:

• fashionable hairstyle, particularly to attract members of the opposite sex

noun:

• in calligraphy, a triangular stroke going from upper left to lower right

adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill whistling sound - onomatopoeia
• reddening or brightening slightly
• rush of blood to the head

expression / ichidan verb:

• to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

noun:

• sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake

expression / adverb:

• without a moment's delay; leaving everything else unattended to

godan ~る verb:

• to perform a small motion repetitively (e.g. picking or poking something)

noun:

• sport similar to ball-toss game played in schools (All Japan Tamaire) - abbreviation ➜ 玉入れ

noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)

noun:

• local governmental body that requires federal oversight to recover from its debts

noun:

• man used by a woman to pay for her meals - slang ➜ 飯【めし】

noun:

• mercy killing (euthanasia performed to end someone's suffering, but without consent) ➜ 安楽死

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. - slang

noun:

• small block of wood used to clean one's buttocks after defecating

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term