jpdb beta

offering a cup (of sake) in return

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last drink (of sake); last glass; last cup

4

how (dare you)

2

preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard

1

seeming to want to say something; looking like one wants to give one's opinion

1

run out of

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to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after; to have lingering effects

1

hard to do

1

proposal; offer; request; application

1

means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty

2

if so; in that case; in that situation

1

unhurriedly; leisurely; slowly; relaxedly; taking one's time

1

useless resistance; vain struggle

3

funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable

3

taking a breather; relaxation; rest; vent; ventilation opening

1

exit and entrance

1

-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action

2

to close; to shut

5

to earn the nickname (of); to be dubbed

1

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

3

to make sure; to make doubly sure

1

closing (properly); shutting; firmness; tightness; carefulness (with money); economy

3

to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits

2

to hang; to hang up

1

slight intoxication; being tipsy; mellowness

1

foreign lands

1

to be popular

1

to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself

1

nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic

3

failure; defeat; mistake; unconsciousness

1

cellar; cave; hole in the ground

5

payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing

4

grinding of the teeth; involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation; gnashing one's teeth; gritting one's teeth

3

to hold in one's mouth; to bring with; to take along

2

reverie; meditation; anxiety; thought; pensiveness

1

consideration; guess; conjecture; judgement

1

to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through

1

hatred

1

north wind; northerly wind

3

doors and shoji (sliding doors with paper panes)

2

new; fresh; novel

2

straggling hair

4

to jar; to creak; to grate

2

shō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 litres

1

to wake (someone) up (roughly); to rouse out of bed; to awaken (someone) by knocking at the door

2

store selling boiled vegetables, fish, etc. (Edo period); boiled-food vendor (Edo period)

1

spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful

4

konnyaku (Amorphophallus konjac); konjac; devil's tongue; konnyaku jelly; konjac jelly; devil's tongue jelly

1

Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)

3

casting; cast-metal object

1