expression:

• zip it (when used to others); I'll shut up (when used by oneself); button (one's) lips - colloquialism ➜ チャック

noun:

• bur (of a chestnut, etc.); burr ［イガイガ・いがいが］ ➜ 毬【いが】

adverb / ~と adverb:

• irritating (e.g. one's throat); thorny; bristling ［イガイガ・いがいが］

~と adverb / adverb:

• crying of a baby - archaism - onomatopoeia

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards ➜ 押しくらまんじゅう

noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards - abbreviation ➜ 押し競べ

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌

noun:

• tiles matching both the round wind and one's seat wind - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌
• pung (or kong) of these tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 役牌

noun:

• child's seat which attaches to a table for eating - From English "table chair"

noun:

• steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about - four character idiom

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's

adverb / ~する noun:

• refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ すっきり
• (wearing, etc. something) elegantly; smartly; stylishly; in a refined manner - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

noun:

• blue-tailed monitor (Varanus doreanus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago); Kalabeck's monitor

noun:

• meat shop; butcher's shop
• butcher

noun:

• war fan; commander's war fan

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to spill; to drop; to shed (tears)
• to grumble; to complain
• to let one's feelings show

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of

godan ~る verb:

• to reach the limits; to come to the end of one's tether

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to ram one's opponent head-first in the initial charge - Sumo term
• to punch hard; to hit hard

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality