Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 登壇☆【とうだん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- taking the podium; mounting the rostrum; going on stage to give a speech, etc.
- 空前絶後【くうぜんぜつご】
noun / ~の noun:
- (so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last - four character idiom
- 兄たり難く弟たり難し【けいたりがたくていたりがたし】
expression:
- there is little to choose between the two; they're both about the same - idiom
- 水天彷彿【すいてんほうふつ】水天髣髴
noun:
- view in the distant offing where the sea and skyline cannot be distinguished - four character idiom
- 両差し【もろざし】双差し・諸差しirr.
noun:
- deep double underarm grip which prevents the opponent from grabbing the belt - Sumo term
- 六国史【りっこくし】
noun:
- Rikkokushi; the six ancient Japanese historical collections compiled between the Nara and Heian periods
- 大御【おおみ・おおん・おおむ】御【おおん・おおむ】
prefix:
- august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language
- 晴れの舞台【はれのぶたい】
noun:
- big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れ舞台
一世一代の晴れの舞台という言い回しがあるが、これはまさにそれである。 There's a saying, "once in a life-time event," and that's just what this is.
- 慌てる乞食はもらいが少ない【あわてるこじきはもらいがすくない】慌てる乞食は貰いが少ない
expression:
- slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping - proverb
- 雑巾摺【ぞうきんずり】
noun:
- finishing board nailed where the floor boards meet the wall; (similar to) skirting, baseboards
- 買い薬【かいぐすり】買薬
noun:
- over-the-counter drug; medication bought directly from the drugstore without a prescription ➜ 売薬
- 甲種合格【こうしゅごうかく】
noun:
- passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)
- やさんす・やしゃんす・やしゃます
auxiliary verb:
- indicates respect for the one performing an action and politeness to the listener - after a monosyllable imperfective form verb - archaism - female language - polite language
- カゴ落ち【カゴおち】かご落ち【かごおち】
expression / noun:
- leaving an online shopping session without purchasing the goods in the cart - IT term
- 当たり★【あたり】当り☆・中り・中たり
noun:
- hit
- success
- guess; prediction
- affability; friendliness
- sensation; touch
- bruise (on fruit)
- situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move (in the game of go)
- bite (of a fish on a hook); strike - also written as 魚信 ➜ 魚信
suffix:
- per; each
その現在建設中の工場は、一日当たり3000台のビデオデッキを組み立てられる。 The factory now under construction will assemble 3,000 VCR units per day.
何回か当たりはあったが針にはかからなかった。 I got several bites, but could not hook a fish.
赤道における経度1度当たりの長さ。 Distance per degree of longitude at equator.
- 高麗☆【こうらい・こま】狛【こま】
noun:
- Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE) ［こうらい］ - abbreviation
noun / prefix noun:
- Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)
noun:
- (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine ［狛］ ➜ 狛犬
- のです☆・のだ☆・んです・んだ
expression:
- the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; it is that ...
- 今週中に【こんしゅうじゅうに】
adverb:
- before the week is out; before the week is over; within the week; sometime this week
- 切る★【きる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to cut; to cut through; to perform (surgery)
- to sever (connections, ties) ➜ 縁を切る
- to turn off (e.g. the light)
- to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to disconnect ➜ 電話を切る
- to punch (a ticket); to tear off (a stub)
- to open (something sealed)
- to start
- to set (a limit); to do (something) in less or within a certain time; to issue (stamps, vouchers, etc.)
- to reduce; to decrease; to discount ➜ 値切る
- to shake off (water, etc.); to let drip-dry; to let drain
- to cross; to traverse
- to criticize sharply
- to act decisively; to do (something noticeable); to go first; to make (certain facial expressions, in kabuki)
- to turn (vehicle, steering wheel, etc.)
- to curl (a ball); to bend; to cut
- to shuffle (cards)
- to discard a tile - Mahjong term
- to dismiss; to sack; to let go; to expulse; to excommunicate
- to dig (a groove); to cut (a stencil, on a mimeograph)
- to trump ➜ 切り札
- to cut (the connection between two groups) (in go)
- to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking a metal against stone) - also written as 鑽る
- to draw (a shape) in the air (with a sword, etc.)
auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:
- to finish; to complete - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 疲れきる
２．大根は拍子木に切る。 2. Cut the daikon into long sticks.
家を出る前にはガスのスイッチを切ることを忘れないでください。 Don't forget to turn off the gas before you leave the house.
３．電話をかけても、アナウンス等に従って操作したりせず、すぐに切ること。 3. If you do phone then hang up immediately, without following any instructions given.
いったん封を切るとそのテープは返品できません。 Once you break the seal, you can't return the tape.
- トーク☆
noun:
- talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
- talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
- toque
- 膝隠し【ひざかくし】
noun:
- standing panel used in Kansai-area rakugo to hide the performer's legs from view; knee-hider [literal]
- 誤爆☆【ごばく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- bombing (shelling) the wrong target; (be killed by) friendly fire
海軍のジェット機はとんでもない方向に飛行して、味方の軍隊を誤爆した模様だ。 It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake.
- シートピア
noun:
- seatopia; experimental underwater habitat developed by Japan in the 1970s - From English "sea utopia"
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