noun:

• vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions ➜ 合わせ酢

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

noun:

• game or series of games between the first and second place teams - Sports term

noun:

• administrative reform proposal, involving integration of prefectures into 7 or 9 states

noun:

• practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body

noun:

• feeling of food or drink going down one's throat - often of beer

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ 雑炊

noun / ~する noun:

• extortion of money or goods (e.g. from lower year students); shakedown - slang

expression / adjectival noun:

• unnatural; out of place; forced or faked (e.g. expression)

noun:

• polymastia (having more than one pair of mammae or breasts); pleomastia; hypermastia

noun:

• rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

noun:

• hungry spirit (lacking in people not having drive or ambition)

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

~の noun / noun:

• soupy; containing more broth or sauce than usual (of gyudon, etc.)

adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill whistling sound - onomatopoeia
• reddening or brightening slightly
• rush of blood to the head

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 欠き餅

noun:

• thrusting down one's opponent either inside or outside the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• shaoxingjiu (Chinese alcohol made from rice or glutinous millet) - From Chinese

noun:

• larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish) - sometimes read ごんどうくじら - obscure term ➜ 巨頭鯨

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to write ruby characters (small furigana above or beside kanji) ➜ ルビ・振り仮名

noun:

• leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc. - archaism

noun:

• great idiot; fool; (saying) something silly or stupid ➜ 惚け

noun:

• sticker for car drivers 70 years or older