expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

noun:

• person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.)
• to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to overcome (habit, addiction) ［断ち切る・断切る］
• to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.); to disconnect ［断ち切る・断切る］

noun:

• baldness; bald head
• children's hairstyle of short untied hair; children with short untied hair ［かぶろ・かむろ］
• young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period) ［かぶろ・かむろ］ ➜ 太夫・天神
• idiot; moron - derogatory term - usually written using kana alone

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to weaken; to grow weak; to wane; to decline (of one's health)
• to be downcast; to be dejected; to be dispirited
• to be troubled; to be at a loss; to be perplexed; to be annoyed

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to pick on; to tease; to be cruel to; to persecute
• to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud)
• to make a young woman one's own thing

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow timid; to cower; to shrink; to lose one's nerve
• to become perverse; to become contrary; to become warped; to become withdrawn
• to be cramped; to be constrained

noun:

• someone who made a short trip to America; going to America just long enough for a pee (ref. to short USA trip after WWII to boost one's credentials) - obsolete term - derogatory term ➜ 小便【しょんべん】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy; to comply with; to live up to ➜ 沿う
• to accompany; to go with; to stay by one's side
• to associate with (someone); to mix with
• to marry; to wed - esp. 添う
• to be added - esp. 添う

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite at; to snap at; to nibble ➜ 食いつく【くいつく】
• to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into ➜ 食いつく【くいつく】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to place (in position); to fix; to set (e.g. table); to lay (foundation)
• to install; to seat (someone) ➜ 上座に据える
• to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
• to apply (moxa)

noun:

• nest (of boxes); nesting
• concealed information
• adopting a child after one's own has died; child adopted in this manner ［入れ子］
• cavity in an oar (fitted onto a peg as part of a traditional oarlock) ➜ 櫓杭

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun / ~する noun:

• being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time
• visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time

noun:

• carry-back; bringing the ball back to one's own position (in rugby) - Sports term
• carryback; carrying over a deduction or credit from a prior year to the current year (to reduce income tax) - Economics term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to filch; to snatch; to pinch; to swindle; to cheat (someone out of something); to rip off
• to steal (an idea, work, etc.); to plagiarize
• to arrest; to nab; to round up
• to open one's mouth wide and eat heartily; to gulp down food

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to file; to frost (glass)
• to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)

expression / noun:

• changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons ➜ 移り変わり【うつりかわり】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pass (time); to spend
• to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol)
• to take care of; to support - archaism

godan ~す verb / auxiliary verb:

• to overdo; to do too much
• to ... without acting on it

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite (at); to snap at
• to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life