adverb / ~と adverb:

• squeak; cheep; peep - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• slurp; sucking noisily - onomatopoeia

noun:

• mouse - onomatopoeia - children's language

noun:

• shamelessly flattering; brown-nosing; licking excrement [literal]

noun:

• oculolinctus; worming; eyeball-licking fetishism

expression / adverb:

• in every nook and corner; from A to Z; from head to toe; from cover to cover

noun:

• Hirudo nipponia (species of blood-sucking leech)

noun:

• licking one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• dimness; dimly lit place

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

noun:

• cyclostomes (eel-like jawless fishes with round mouths used for sucking) ➜ 無顎類

expression:

• from right to left; in one ear and out the other
• nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado

noun:

• Petromyzontidae; family of parasitic lamprey with a toothed sucking mouth

noun:

• pyogenic bacteria; pus-producing bacteria

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to fester; to form pus

noun:

• lamps lit at night in spring

expression:

• helping and protecting in all ways; acting as a raincoat (protecting from rain) and acting as a hat (protecting from sun) [literal] - proverb ➜ 陰になり日向になり【かげになりひなたになり】

expression:

• anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

noun / ~する noun:

• going to and from school; path to and from school; way to school

noun:

• paste similar to miso made from koji mold and salt water
• watery mash left over from making soy sauce

noun:

• detachment from dichotomies; detachment from objectivity and subjectivity - obscure term - Buddhism term

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• louse (esp. a sucking louse); lice

noun:

• lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

noun:

• beginning and end

noun / ~する noun:

• doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end

adverb:

• from beginning to end; the whole time; throughout; consistently