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:

• 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

noun:

• aschelminth (any invertebrate animal formerly classified as belonging to phylum Aschelminthes)

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

expression:

• head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph