Results, one-upmanship
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- ラブコール・ラヴコール・ラブ・コール・ラヴ・コール
noun:
- love call; calling out to someone with love or good will
- phone call to a loved one
- fervent request; heartfelt appeal; passionate call to action
- 山越し【やまごし】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- wind blowing down, coming over a mountain
noun:
- immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
- winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term
- 妹【いも】
noun:
- darling (only of a woman); dear; honey; my betrothed - archaism - familiar language
- one's sister - archaism
- friend - archaism - familiar language - female language
- 山の神【やまのかみ】ヤマノカミ
expression / noun:
- mountain god [やまのかみ]
- one's wife (esp. a nagging wife) [やまのかみ] - humorous term
- roughskin sculpin (Trachidermus fasciatus) - usually written using kana alone
- 一本やり【いっぽんやり】一本槍
noun / ~の noun:
- guiding principle; single-minded policy - idiom
- one's sole talent - idiom
noun:
- single spear ➜ 槍【やり】
- おいとま《お暇・御暇》 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- leaving; going home ➜ 暇【いとま】
- quitting one's job
- free time; leisure; spare time
- せる・させる Inflection
auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:
- auxiliary verb indicating the causative - せる is for 五段 verbs, させる for 一段; follows the imperfective form of (v5) and (vs) verbs; senses 1-3 of せる are sometimes abbreviated as 〜す
- auxiliary verb indicating that one has been granted the permission to do something - usu. as 〜(さ)せてもらう, 〜(さ)せていただく, etc. - humble language
- auxiliary verb used as an honorific for others' actions - as 〜(さ)せられる, 〜あら(さ)せられる, 〜(さ)せ給う, etc. - honorific language
- 後を追う【あとをおう】跡を追う・あとを追う Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to follow; to pursue; to chase; to run after
- to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one
- to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)
- 循行【じゅんこう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- かずく・かづく《被く》 Inflection
godan ~く verb:
- to wear on the head - archaism
- to have cloth, clothing, etc. bestowed upon one by their lord or master; to wear such cloth on the left shoulder
- to be injured
- 盛り花【もりばな】盛花【もりばな・せいか】
noun:
- flower arrangement in a built-up style
- placing salt by the entrance to one's establishment to bring good luck; such piles of salt [もりばな] ➜ 盛り塩
- seasonal peak of flowers [せいか]
- ひとかど・いっかど《一角・一廉》
adverbial noun / ~の noun:
- a cut above the rest; superior; respectable; full-fledged; something uncommon
- one field; one matter
adverb:
- suitably; reasonably
- VSOP【ブイエスオーピー・ブイ・エス・オー・ピー】
noun:
- very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
- one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
- VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】
- 粗相【そそう】麁相 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- carelessness; careless mistake; blunder
- wetting one's pants
adjectival noun (achaic) / noun:
- crude; coarse - archaism
- クォータ・クォーター・クオータ・クオーター・クウォウタ・クォウタ
noun:
- quarter
- someone with one non-Japanese grandparent ➜ ハーフ
- quota - esp. クォータ and クオータ
- 感得【かんとく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- deep realization (realisation); profound realization
- one's faith being transmitted to a deity and one's wish then being granted
- unexpectedly obtaining something
- 無手勝流【むてかつりゅう】
noun:
- winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting - four character idiom
- one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor)
- Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu) - colloquialism ➜ 新当流
- ごぼう抜き【ごぼうぬき】牛蒡抜き
noun:
- pulling something out (in a stroke); plucking out
- forcibly removing one after another (e.g. demonstrators)
- overtaking multiple people (in a spurt); pulling ahead
- 別家【べっけ・べっか】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
- leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け
noun:
- separate house - archaism
- 腹の虫【はらのむし】
noun:
- roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm
- (metaphor for) location of one's feelings or sentiments ➜ 腹の虫が治まらない【はらのむしがおさまらない】
- (metaphor for) empty stomach; feeling of hunger ➜ 腹の虫が鳴る【はらのむしがなる】
- 一白【いっぱく】
noun:
- first of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mercury and north) ➜ 九星
- white patch on one foot of a horse; horse with such a patch
- surface (landscape) that is white all over; pure white
- 打たれ強い【うたれづよい】 Inflection
adjective:
- able to take a lot of punishment (of a boxer, etc.); able to take a hit - Martial Arts term
- able to keep one's cool when the batter gets a hit (of a baseball pitcher)
- resilient; strong in the face of criticism or adversity
Kanji
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