expression / noun:

• having no outstanding characteristics; all seeming about the same; bragging competition concerning matters of little importance; pissing contest; height comparison among acorns [literal] - idiom

expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something - esp. 極める, 窮める
• to investigate thoroughly; to master - esp. 究める

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to flap (wings)
• to spread one's wings; to go out into the world

expression:

• not knowing one's way around; not familiar with the area; not knowing what to do

noun:

• youth
• child (esp. of the young son of someone of high social standing)

prefix noun / suffix noun:

• young; new

noun:

• marriage by abduction; marriage by capture; bride kidnapping
• marriage where the person courted was already married

noun:

• Imperial surname; title borne by a prince of the blood as a head of a house ➜ 宮家【みやけ】

expression / ~の noun:

• one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be able to see far into the distance; to have good long-distance vision

noun:

• missed-program webcast; webcast of a serialized TV show (after the TV broadcast); catch-up TV

adverb:

• now; soon; shortly; before long; presently
• already; yet; by now; (not) anymore ➜ すでに
• further; more; again; another; the other

interjection:

• tsk; dammit; jeez; come on - used to strengthen expression of an emotion (often exasperation)

noun:

• tune; tone; key; pitch; time; rhythm
• vein; mood; way; manner; style; knack
• condition; state of health
• impetus; spur of the moment; strain
• trend

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• fluently (speaking a foreign language) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• incessantly (speaking); glibly; garrulously; volubly - onomatopoeia
• one after the other (flipping through pages) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy; weak - onomatopoeia

noun:

• fool; oaf; airhead - Kansai dialect
• type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events ［あほだら］ - abbreviation ➜ あほだら経

noun:

• curved wooden support on top of the main beam of a house, now mainly decorative (shape evocates an open-legged frog)

noun:

• killing a would-be avenger
• having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game

noun:

• impudent talk; speaking without thinking; continuing talking even after one has lost an argument; (getting in) the last word; talking back; needless retort

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - derogatory or familiar

noun:

• samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami)
• type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

noun:

• WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter) ➜ クールビズ

noun:

• large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc.; cue card - abbreviation ➜ カンニングペーパー
• crib sheet; cheat sheet - abbreviation ➜ カンニングペーパー

noun:

• Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
• complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)

adverbial noun / noun:

• in the middle of; height of; in course of; midst

noun:

• House of Councillors (upper house of the National Diet of Japan)