adverb:

• tightly; squeaking - onomatopoeia
• (drinking) all in one sweep - onomatopoeia

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

noun:

• chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; paymaster
• chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)

noun:

• flag

suffix:

• tag indicating a future role or status for a character in anime, games, etc. (e.g. death, love, survival) - slang

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• dung beetle; gold beetle; goldbug; scarab beetle ➜ 糞転がし【ふんころがし】・黄金虫【こがねむし】
• maggots in faeces (feces)

noun:

• rhinoceros hide
• Chinese lacquerware technique resulting in a mottled finish - abbreviation ➜ 犀皮塗り【さいひぬり】

conjunction:

• and then; besides; on top of that
• in that case; that being the case; if so

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman - derogatory term ➜ お多福・ひょっとこ
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - abbreviation ➜ お亀蕎麦

noun:

• device with axle used to change the backdrop of a (kabuki) play - archaism ➜ 田楽豆腐
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides

noun:

• overnight stay when traveling (travelling) ➜ 旅寝
• sleeping on grass in an open field

noun:

• tea-drinking companion; crony; buddy
• spouse married late in life for companionship

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

expression / ichidan verb:

• to turn one's back on
• to be uninterested in

noun:

• insole ➜ 中敷【なかじき】
• perforated divider in a food steamer

noun:

• imperturbability; steadfastness
• cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• internal sense ➜ 外官【がいかん】
• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 外官【げかん】

noun:

• funhouse; fun house
• subculture magazine published in Japan between 1974 and 1985 ［ビックリハウス］

noun:

• age of the moon; number of days since the new moon
• age in months (esp. of an infant)

noun:

• dropping; losing - abbreviation
• missing item; something one forgot to write down
• trap
• wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed
• conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 落とし掛け

noun / ~の noun:

• tax-inclusive pricing ➜ 外税
• tax included in a price ➜ 外税

noun:

• period from midnight until the early morning
• around 4 in the morning ➜ 寅の刻

noun / ~する noun:

• permanent staff; permanent employee; service for a fixed period of time - obscure term

noun:

• (Edo era) a daimyo or feudal retainer who lived and/or served in Edo for a fixed period of time - archaism

expression / noun:

• five-day workweek system; five-day school-week - sometimes 完全週休２日制
• having two days off in at least one week of a month