noun:

• politician (or someone otherwise engaged in politics); statesman

noun:

• someone engaged in a certain pursuit; practitioner; worker; employee

noun:

• seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)

noun:

• someone without a fixed occupation; man of leisure; playboy ➜ あそびにん・遊客・道楽者

noun / ~する noun:

• e-mailing or texting someone many times - colloquialism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to quarry; to cut (timber); to cut and carry off ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］
• to begin to talk; to break the ice; to broach ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す］
• to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.) ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・鑽り出す］
• to select and extract (from a media file); to splice out ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］

expression / intransitive verb / godan ~る verb:

• to be on one's mind; to worry one; to care about; to be bothered by; to feel uneasy; to be anxious; to be curious about
• to feel like; to feel inclined to
• to fancy; to like; to catch one's eye

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be overturned; to be reversed; to turn over; to capsize
• to fall down; to tumble down; to topple over; to lie on one's back

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to prune; to trim; to cut back; to clip
• to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest
• to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be able to receive; to be able to take; to be able to accept - humble language ➜ 貰える
• to be able to eat; to be able to drink - humble language ➜ 頂く
• to be acceptable; to be satisfactory ➜ 頂けない【いただけない】

expression:

• one or two sizes (bigger, etc.); one or two levels (better, more mature, etc.)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to work out a plan of deception; to scheme; to take in; to dupe; to deceive

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to think up a plan; to think over a plan
• to discuss; to consult

godan ~う verb:

• to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty
• to say well; to say cleverly; to say elegantly
• to say often; to say frequently
• to say without shame; to say impudently - oft. as an admonition in the form of よく言うよ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to reach the summit (e.g. of a mountain)
• to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

conjunction:

• by the way; incidentally
• even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how) - after the plain past form of a verb

noun / ~する noun:

• woman or girl who acts cute by playing innocent and helpless - derogatory term - slang ➜ ぶる

noun:

• new money; nouveau riche; person who has amassed substantial wealth in his lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• mechanical doll; automaton; string puppet; marionette; "person who follows orders blindly" [figurative]

noun:

• requesting the testimony of an unsworn witness (who is not bound by perjury law)

noun:

• holding two positions at once (esp. of rikishi or judges who are also coaches) - Sumo term

noun:

• farrier (person who fits foot irons on horses and cows); hoof (care) specialist

expression:

• he who touches pitch shall be defiled therewith; one rotten apple spoils the barrel - proverb

noun:

• Shuten-dōji; mythical Japanese oni (demon) who lived on Mt. Ōe

noun:

• geisha; woman who entertains (e.g. by playing the shamisen) for her living - obscure term ➜ 歌妓

noun:

• woman who played music, danced and worked as a prostitute; good-time girl - archaism