Results, one-upmanship
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- 大風呂敷【おおぶろしき】
noun:
- large furoshiki - four character idiom
- big talk; vain boasting or bluster; blowing one's own trumpet; rodomontade
- 単細胞【たんさいぼう】單細胞old
noun / ~の noun:
- single cell
- simple-minded person; one-track-minded person - colloquialism
- 不動心【ふどうしん】
noun:
- imperturbability; steadfastness
- cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term
- 外様【とざま】外方
noun:
- outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo - abbreviation ➜ 外様大名
- outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
- 空振り三振【からぶりさんしん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- strikeout - Baseball term ➜ 三振
noun:
- (several) vain attempts; failing despite giving one's best - idiom
- 汚れる☆【よごれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to get dirty; to become dirty
- to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity ➜ 汚れる【けがれる】
- やっと☆
adverb:
- at last; at length - onomatopoeia
- barely; narrowly; just; by the skin of one's teeth - onomatopoeia
- なんとか★《何とか》
expression:
- something; something or other; so-and-so
adverb:
- somehow; anyhow; one way or another
傷から流れる血をなんとかしなさい。 Do something about the flow of blood from the wound.
- 訓☆【くん・くにobs.】
noun:
- native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】
noun / suffix:
- precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】
- ひっくり返る☆【ひっくりかえる】引っくり返る・引っ繰り返る☆・引繰り返る Inflection
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
彼女は胸の中で心臓がひっくり返る思いだった。 She felt her heart turn over in her chest.
- 擦る☆【する】摩る・磨る・擂る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to file; to frost (glass)
- to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)
- 行き止まり☆【いきどまり・ゆきどまり】行止まり・行き止り・行止り
noun:
- dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; no through road (i.e. on signage)
- end; end of the road; end point; as far as one can go
- 堪能☆ateji【たんのう】 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- proficient; skillful ➜ 堪能【かんのう】
noun / ~する noun:
- enjoying; satisfaction; satiation; having one's fill (of)
彼女はフランス語が堪能だ。 She is proficient in French.
ファン・ドーゲンの展覧会を十分堪能してきたよ。 I thoroughly enjoyed myself at the Van Dorgen Exhibition.
- 対峙☆【たいじ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- confrontation; standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings)
- squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against; holding one's own with
両軍は対峙して、むなしく日を送るばかりでした。 Both armies were placed one in front of the other and spent their days doing nothing.
- 言い切る☆【いいきる】言いきる・言切る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to declare; to assert; to state definitively
- to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
- 生理的☆【せいりてき】 Inflection
adjectival noun:
- physiological; physical
- visceral; instinctive; in one's guts
- 整理券【せいりけん】
noun:
- numbered ticket (e.g. to determine order of service in shop, etc.)
- zone ticket; boarding ticket; bus ticket dispensed at boarding, used to show where one boarded
最悪・・・入場制限を設けるしかないでしょう。整理券の配布とかで。 What a mess...I suppose there's nothing for it but restricting admissions. Handing out numbered tickets or something.
- 汚る【よごる】
lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:
- プレイヤード
noun:
- baby's play pen; play yard
- Pleiad; La Pléiade; one of a group of seven 16th century French poets - From French
- 足りない【たりない】 Inflection
adjective:
- insufficient; not enough; lacking Antonym: 足りる
- dim-witted; slow; one brick short of a full load
- 仕切り直し【しきりなおし】しきり直し・仕切りなおし
noun:
- getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again - Sumo term
- starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one
- 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
Kanji
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