Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 一からやり直す【いちからやりなおす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again
- なんでやねん
expression:
- what the hell; what the fuck; what are you going on about; you've got to be kidding - Kansai dialect
- 赤身☆【あかみ】
noun / ~の noun:
コレステロールをためたくなかったら、脂肪のない赤身の肉を食べるのがよい。 If you want to avoid cholesterol, eat lean meat with no fat.
- 加槓【かカン】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓
- たらい回し【たらいまわし】盥回し Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
- handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
- handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)
政権のたらい回しは反対だ。 I'm opposed to political power being monopolized within a clique.
- プロパー☆ Inflection
adjectival noun:
- proper
noun:
- propagandist; propaganda - abbreviation
- full time (staff); career (job title) (e.g. someone who has worked in the same area from the start)
- regular price; net price
- 正宗【まさむね】
noun:
- famous sword; sword blade by Masamune
- sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844) - colloquialism
- 事実と異なる【じじつとことなる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be factually incorrect; to differ from the actual facts; to not be the case
- 赴く☆【おもむく・おもぶく】趣く・趨く Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to proceed according to; to repair to; to betake oneself to
- to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.)
- to abide by; to agree to; to consent to; to obey - archaism
決心がつきかねたので、私は感情のおもむくままに行動した。 I couldn't decide what to do, so I just followed my heart.
- マンバ
noun:
- mamba (snake of the genus Dendroaspis)
- yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - abbreviation ➜ ヤマンバ
- 場合による【ばあいによる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to depend (on the situation); to be handled case by case
- 肌で知る【はだでしる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to know something by direct experience; to know through the skin [literal]
- 土建国家【どけんこっか】
noun:
- construction state; civil engineering state; country dominated by the construction industry
- らしい☆ Inflection
auxiliary adjective:
- seeming ...; appearing ... - expresses judgement based on evidence, reason or trustworthy hearsay
suffix / adjective:
- -ish; like a ...; typical of ...; appropriate for ...; becoming of ...; worthy of the name ... - after a noun, adverb or adjective stem
- キープボットル・キープ・ボットル
noun:
- bottle of whiskey (whisky) that a bar customer buys, writes his name on, keeps on a shelf at the bar, and drinks little by little on successive visits - From English "keep bottle"
- 靴新しと雖も首に加えず【くつあたらしといえどもくびにくわえず】沓新しと雖も首に加えず
expression:
- there must be a clear distinction between the upper and lower classes; even new shoes must not be worn on the head [literal] - proverb
- どストライク・ドストライク Inflection
noun:
adjectival noun:
- perfect (for something or someone); just right; just the way one likes it - colloquialism
- 寒苦鳥【かんくちょう・かんくどり・かんくとり】
noun:
- cold-suffering bird; kankucho; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes - Buddhism term
- (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori - idiom - derogatory term - Buddhism term
- 株を守る【くいをまもる・くいぜをまもる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to hold fast to one's ways; to be overly conservative; to not get with the times; to guard the tree stub [literal] - from a fable appearing in the Han Feizi - idiom
- 下る☆【くだる】降る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to descend; to go down; to come down
- to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.)
- to pass (of time)
- to surrender; to capitulate
- to be less than; to be inferior to - often in neg. form
- to have the runs; to have diarrhea - also written as 瀉る ➜ 腹が下る
- to pass (in stool); to be discharged from the body
- to depreciate oneself; to be humble - archaism
山を下ったところに学校がある。 There is a school down the mountain.
彼は懲役十年で、女房には三年の刑が下った。 He was given ten years and his wife three.
米の収穫が下ったら大変なことになるぞ。 A poor rice harvest will get us into real trouble.
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