noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

noun:

• this thesis; this article; the article under consideration

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

noun:

• very bad condition; awful state; terrible situation; in the shit - usu. as どつぼにはまる ➜ どつぼにはまる
• night-soil reservoir dug in a field ➜ 野壺【のつぼ】
• night-soil pot - orig. meaning
• earthenware vessel; earthen urn - obscure term

noun:

• cut paper; paper cut in half; paper scrap; the art of cutting paper (in contrast to origami)

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day ➜ 三度の飯より好き【さんどのめしよりすき】

conjunction:

• additionally; in addition; moreover; at the same time

noun:

• land which one visits; alien land; topsoil brought from another place to mix with the soil

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

expression / noun:

• sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text ➜ 原文のまま【げんぶんのまま】

adverb:

• confidentially; privately; off the record

adverb:

• like; as if; the same as ➜ 如し

noun:

• Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth

noun:

• street prostitute; streetwalker; lady of the night

expression:

• all that one has; all that there is; the whole ➜ 有りったけ

noun:

• giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes - four character idiom

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持す

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

noun:

• family precepts; family motto; rule of the home

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - Astronomy term ➜ ポラリス

noun:

• One Village One Product movement; OVOP; campaign to boost the countryside by promoting the special products of local areas

expression:

• you could say; you might say; verging on the

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch