Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 言いよう【いいよう】言い様【いいよう・いいざま】言いざま【いいざま】言様【いいよう・いいざま】
expression / noun:
- manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something
adverb:
- at the same time as speaking; as one speaks [いいざま]
- 歳差運動【さいさうんどう】
noun:
- (motion of) precession of the equinoxes - Astronomy term ➜ 歳差【さいさ】
- precession - Physics term
- 役所仕事【やくしょしごと】
noun:
- red tape; red-tapism; officialism; bureaucratic bungling - four character idiom
この手続きにはお役所仕事がだいぶからんでいます。 There's a lot of red tape involved in this procedure.
- 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない【やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいない】柳の下に何時も泥鰌は居ない
expression:
- a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb
- 名乗る☆【なのる】名のる・名告る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:
- to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
- to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
- to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to call out the goods one is selling - archaism
- 突く☆【つく】衝く・撞く・捺く Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to prick; to stab
- to poke; to prod; to push; to thrust; to nudge; to hit; to strike
- to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with; to press against (the floor, etc.)
- to attack
- to brave (the rain, etc.)
針で親指を突いてしまった。 I pricked my thumb with a needle.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。 The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
- 問題点★【もんだいてん】
noun:
- the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem
我々の計画の問題点は費用というよりもそれにかかる時間だ。 The problem with our plan is not so much the cost as it is the time required.
- 場末☆【ばすえ】
noun / ~の noun:
- outskirts (of a town); run-down district
私は場末のジャズクラブに行って、ライブミュージックを楽しみます。 I like to go to a local jazz club where I can enjoy live music.
- 地★【ち】
noun / suffix noun:
雨降って地固まる。 Adversity strengthens the foundations.
どっちが最終的な安息の地となるんだろう。 Which one will be our final resting place?
これらの国々はヨーロッパ文明発祥の地である。 European civilization had its birth in these lands.
彼女のドレスは青い地に白の水玉模様がある。 Her dress is blue with white polka dots.
- 束【つか】
noun:
- strut; short vertical post
- thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.)
- handbreadth; bundle - archaism ➜ 束【そく】
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