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さらしくびsarashikubi

noun:

  • criminal's head on public display; displaying a beheaded head; beheaded head
かんづめkanzumeoldold

noun / ~の noun:

  • canned food; tinned food

noun:

  • confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work) - usu. 缶詰にする
  • being stuck in a confined space - usu. 缶詰になる

なしnashihaこのkono工場koujoude缶詰kanzumeniされますsaremasu Pears are canned in this factory.

いしうちishiuchi

noun:

  • rock fight; stone-throwing fight 石合戦
  • custom by which neighbours or friends threw rocks inside a couple's house on their wedding night
よだつyodatsuいよだつiyodatsu Inflection

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

身の毛minokemoよだつyodatsu It made my hair stand on end.

スケルトンSUKERUTON

noun:

  • skeleton (of a vertebrate, ship, building, etc.)
  • transparency (revealing the inner workings of a device); translucency; see-through body
  • skeleton (sport)
  • skeleton (code) - IT term
というところtoiutokoroとゆうところtoyuutokoro

expression:

  • a state called; a position described as; can sum up as; approximates to
  • places known as; that called
  • the place named
こうむしっこうぼうがいざいkoumushikkoubougaizai

noun:

  • obstructing the discharge of official duties; hindering a government official in the execution of his duties
パンチPANCHI Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • punch (with the fist)
  • punching (a hole); hole punch

noun:

  • punch (drink)
  • punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact
すそのsusono

noun:

  • foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain
  • range; spread; extent; encompassing circle
じじゅんかせきjijunkaseki

noun:

  • index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum); key fossil; leading fossil
げんぽうgenpou

noun:

  • forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism
じゃくにくきょうしょくjakunikukyoushoku

noun:

  • survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; the weak are meat the strong do eat [literal] - four character idiom

弱肉強食jakunikukyoushoku The weak are food for the strong.

のろうnorou Inflection

godan ~う verb / transitive:

  • to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely

zen人類jinruinotsuminoためにtameni俺達oretachiha呪われるnorowareru For all mans sins damned we shall be.

ガングリオンGANGURION

noun:

  • ganglion; swelling on a tendon sheath - Medicine term
  • ganglion; nerve ganglion; nerve knot - Anatomy term 神経節
まえやくmaeyaku

noun:

  • the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year 厄年
みをよせるmiwoyoseru Inflection

expression / ichidan verb:

  • to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on
  • to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to
きゅうじkyuuji Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • waiting on a table; serving (at dinner)

noun:

  • waiter; waitress; waitperson; server; cabin boy; bellboy; page; pageboy
  • office boy; office girl

きれいなkireinaウエイトレスUEITORESUga給仕kyuujiしてshiteくれたkureta A pretty waitress waited on us.

まきかえmakikae

noun:

  • winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
  • changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term
やまがあたるyamagaataru Inflection

expression / godan ~る verb:

  • to accurately guess what subjects will turn up on a test; to have one's predictions turn out correct
おおさむこさむoosamukosamu

expression:

  • first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")
しきりいたshikiriita

noun:

  • partition board; plank used as a partition
  • board used in a ship to prevent the cargo from moving around
なんていnantei

noun:

  • grounds south of a building; southern garden
  • garden south of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in the Kyoto Imperial Palace) 紫宸殿
めんするmensuru Inflection

~する verb (spec.):

  • to face on; to look out on to

日本nipponhahigashiha太平洋taiheiyouni面するmensuru Japan faces the Pacific on the east.

くいさがるkuisagaru Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to
  • to hound; to keep after (someone); to refuse to back down; to persist; to tenaciously face (someone); to doggedly oppose
  • to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips - Sumo term
ほれなおすhorenaosu Inflection

godan ~す verb:

  • to rekindle one's love; to fall in love again (with a person one has previously been in love with) 直す

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