noun:

• host in a bar for male homosexuals; effeminate man who talks and dresses like a woman; young male homosexual - From English "gay boy"

noun:

• nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

expression / noun:

• what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

suffix noun:

• as much as you would like to; as much as one likes ➜ 食べ放題

noun:

• long, kimono-like garment, made of light fabric and worn under the kimono; under-kimono

noun:

• cosmic bowling; bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to feel like; to feel inclined to do

noun:

• child's face; child-like face; baby face

noun:

• call of a strange bird; strange bird-call-like sound

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

expression:

• if you are so inclined; if it suits you; if you like ➜ 何だったら

expression:

• if you are so inclined; if it suits you; if you like ➜ 何なら

expression:

• no time like the present; make hay while the sun shines; it's the auspicious day when you've just thought of it [literal] - proverb

godan ~す verb:

• to adorn oneself; to dress oneself up

auxiliary verb:

• to give an air of; to make oneself seem like

noun:

• snowdrop (Galanthus spp.) ➜ スノードロップ
• snow falling like flower petals; snow on a tree resembling a flower
• red snow ➜ 赤雪

noun:

• warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り

noun / ~する noun:

• building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses

noun:

• jacket type (e.g. a style of clothing)
• jacket-style buoyancy control device (BCD) shaped like a sleeveless coat

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on
• to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

adjective:

• friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?