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- 近寄せる☆【ちかよせる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to bring close; to bring near
- to associate with (someone); to keep company with; to let come close
- 尽かす【つかす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to use completely; to use up; to exhaust
- to exhaust somebody's civility; to give up (on someone) ➜ 愛想を尽かす
- つり上がる【つりあがる】吊り上がる Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to be lifted up; to be hung up
- to twitch upwards; to turn upward; to slant upward
- 立ちすくむ【たちすくむ】立ち竦む Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
- 方違い【かたたがい】
noun:
- setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり
- 嘉肴ありと雖も食らわずんばその旨きを知らず【かこうありといえどもくらわずんばそのうまきをしらず】
expression:
- one cannot understand even a holy man's teachings without study; one cannot know the abilities of a great man without putting him to use; one cannot know the delicious taste of fine food without eating it [literal] - proverb
- 目を楽しませる【めをたのしませる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be pleasure to the eye; to delight the eye; to please the eye; to feast one's eyes on ➜ 目を悦ばす
- にっちもさっちもいかない《にっちもさっちも行かない・二進も三進もいかない・二進も三進も行かない》 Inflection
expression / adjective:
- being driven into a corner; having no way out; being caught between a rock and a hard place
- 壷洗い【つぼあらい】壺洗い
noun:
- individually "washing" a partner's fingers or toes in one's vagina (esp. as a service at a soapland) - slang ➜ ソープランド
- 銭★【せん】錢old
noun:
銭厘を大切にすれば大金はおのずとたまる。 Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
彼のビジネスプランは立派だけど、勘定あって銭足らず、という気もするけどね。 His business plan looks good on paper but I get the feeling it would never work in practice.
- 飛び掛かる【とびかかる】飛びかかる・跳び掛かる・跳びかかる Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)
- 糸を引く【いとをひく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes
- to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
- までも《迄も》
expression:
- to (an extent); up to; so far as; even - more emphatic than まで ➜ 迄【まで】
- doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ... - usu. as 〜までもない
- even if ... - usu. as 〜ないまでも
- こだわり抜く【こだわりぬく】拘り抜く Inflection
godan ~く verb:
- to refuse to compromise (on quality, etc.); to be fastidious about doing things the right way through to the end
- 芋る【いもる】イモる Inflection
godan ~る verb:
- to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve - slang
- (in an online multiplayer game) to camp - slang
- 焼け野の雉夜の鶴【やけののきぎすよるのつる】
expression:
- parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term
- 子泣き爺【こなきじじい】子啼爺・子なき爺・子泣きじじい
noun:
- Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)
- すぽっと・スポッと
adverb:
- snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia
- (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia
- もらえる《貰える》 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to be able to receive; to be able to take; to be able to accept ➜ 貰う
- could you (give me); would you; can you - after the -te form of a verb as もらえないか, もらえますか, etc.
コンピューターを使えたらもっとお金を貰えるかもしれないのだが。 They might pay me more if I could use a computer.
- 小菊【こぎく】
noun:
- small chrysanthemum
- small low grade piece of japanese paper used as a kettle rest or as a tissue - obscure term
- paper handed as a means of congratulations in a red light district - obscure term
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