adverb:

• absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another

noun:

• macaron (a French pastry made from egg whites and almond powder); macaroon - From French

expression:

• currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking; sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids) [literal]

noun:

• shochu made from sake lees
• low-quality moonshine (esp. post-WWII); hooch (hootch)

noun:

• distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener, i.e. are, asoko, achira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• dizziness (from standing up too fast); orthostatic syncope; lightheadedness; vertigo

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

noun:

• indirect kiss (e.g. drinking from a cup someone has just used)

adverb:

• absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another ➜ 片っ端から

noun:

• hay-meadow commons
• place (or organization, etc.) from which numerous people hope to benefit

noun:

• scalpel sawtail (Prionurus scalprum, species of tang found from Japan to Taiwan)

noun:

• longnose butterfly fish (Forcipiger flavissimus, species of butterflyfish from the Indo-Pacific); forcepsfish

noun:

• whitecheek surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans, species of tang from the Eastern Indian and Pacific Oceans)

noun:

• low door used in bathhouses to prevent the hot water from cooling (Edo period)

noun:

• striped cotton fabric imported from Sao Tome, also copied in Japan

noun:

• dish of seasoned chicken with rice, pickles, etc. (from Kagoshima and Okinawa)

noun:

• one step away from fishing (i.e. needing two more tiles for completion) - Mahjong term ➜ 聴牌

noun:

• top-quality sake brewed from rice grains milled to 50% of weight or less ➜ 精米歩合【せいまいぶあい】

noun:

• starting the new school year from autumn (instead of spring); autumnal admission; fall matriculation

noun:

• sake lees with black or brown specks (from oxidation enzymes produced by the yeast) ➜ 酒かす

noun:

• bagna càuda; dip made from garlic, anchovies, olive oil, etc. - Food term - From Italian

noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

noun:

• Quanrong; ethnic group from northwest of China during the Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BCE)

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese) ➜ 慣用音

expression / ~の noun:

• one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that