expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれぬ

adjectival noun:

• having a single meaning; allowing only one interpretation; unequivocal; unambiguous
• principal; primary; most important

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• individual play; one-man effort; non-cooperation; playing on one's own; selfish play

auxiliary:

• to give; to let one have; to do for one; to be given - contraction of くれろ - Kansai dialect ➜ 呉れる

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be forward; to stick one's nose into; to meddle; to be intrusive
• to jut out; to protude; to overhang

noun:

• pigtails; two plaits hanging about one's shoulders; two plaits hanging down one's back; queue

expression:

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

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• imperfect (Buddhist) training; imperfection in one's (Buddhist) training; incomplete training; poor training - Buddhism term

pronoun:

• I; me - used by Buddhist monks - humble language

adverb:

• saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly ➜ あっ・あっと驚く【あっとおどろく】

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

ichidan verb:

• to find fault with; to rain on one's parade; to nitpick; to quibble ➜ ケチを付ける

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

expression / adverb:

• any; whatever one likes; by all means; anything; everything ➜ 何でも

noun:

• knife pleat; one-way pleat; unidirectional pleat; accordion pleats ➜ 車襞【くるまひだ】

expression / adverb:

• any; whatever one likes; by all means; anything; everything ➜ 何でも

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to weaken (of willpower, solidarity, etc.); to lose one's edge; to become less tense; to become lax (of discipline, rules, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to find fault with; to rain on one's parade; to nitpick; to quibble

interjection:

• all together now!; one, two, go!; ready, set, go!; heave, ho!; oops-a-daisy

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal] - idiom ➜ 身を粉にする【みをこにする】

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれない・止むに止まれぬ

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom