expression / ichidan verb:

• to have tears in one's eyes; to be close to crying

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to throw in a shrimp and pull out a whale; to use a sprat to catch a mackerel; to get big returns on a small investment - idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to pout (e.g. lips) ➜ 尖らせる【とがらせる】
• to get nervous; to set one's nerves on edge ➜ 尖らせる【とがらせる】
• to raise (e.g. one's voice) ➜ 尖らせる【とがらせる】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to pout (e.g. lips) ➜ 尖らす【とがらす】
• to get nervous; to set one's nerves on edge ➜ 尖らす【とがらす】
• to raise (e.g. one's voice) ➜ 尖らす【とがらす】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fail (in getting a job); to miss out (at fishing, hunting, etc.)
• to be left out; to be crowded out

noun / ~する noun:

• being liberated from earthly desires and the woes of man; (reaching) nirvana; moksha; mukti

noun / adjectival noun:

• regret

noun:

• flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart, usu. served as yakitori

noun / ~する noun:

• selection (esp. from many people for an important job position); exceptional promotion

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:

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

noun:

• immobiliser (electronic device that prevents an automobile engine from running without the key); immobilizer

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:

• curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture) ➜ 母屋【もや】・庇

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:

• 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:

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