Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- きな臭い【きなくさい】焦臭い Inflection
adjective:
- smelling burnt; smelling scorched
- smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if military action seems about to happen); war is looming
- suspicious; dubious; questionable
- 乞食を三日すればやめられぬ【こじきをみっかすればやめられぬ】乞食を三日すれば止められぬ
expression:
- once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop [literal] - proverb
- 気がすまない【きがすまない】気が済まない
expression:
- not to be able to settle down (if something is not done); must (do something)
- 唸り【うなり】
noun:
- groan; moan
- roar; howl; growl; bellow
- hum (e.g. motor); buzz (e.g. bee, wire in wind); sough
- beat tone; beats - Music, Physics term
- 合い火【あいび】合火
noun:
- cooking over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning; food prepared over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning ➜ 別火
- 食い込む☆【くいこむ】食込む Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
- to eat into; to encroach; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market); to break into (e.g. first place); to erode; to cut into (e.g. time, savings)
- to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks) - vulgar
医者の費用は本当に貯金に食い込む。 Doctors' bills really cut into our savings.
- よう・よー
auxiliary verb:
- (I) will; (I) shall - on non-五段 stem, e.g. 食べる→食べよう; indicates intention
- let's - on non-五段 stem; indicates suggestion or invitation
- (I) wonder (if); might it be (that); maybe; perhaps; perchance - on non-五段 stem; indicates speculation
interjection:
- hey; yo; hi - familiar language
particle:
- come on; hey - empathetic version of よ ➜ よ
- 律【りつ】
noun:
- law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
- vinaya (rules for the monastic community) - Buddhism term
- Ritsu (school of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 律宗
- lushi (style of Chinese poem) - abbreviation ➜ 律詩
- (musical) pitch - also りち
- six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・呂
- Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) - abbreviation ➜ 律旋
noun / suffix noun / counter:
- (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)
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