jpdb beta

(Western) soup

6

top of ...; head of ...; the moment that ...

3

Joscelyn; Joslin

8

homecoming; return to one's home

2

to let out a cry; to break forth

7

broke; poor; short; skint; having no money

5

pension (esp. public servant's); (arch.) a lord giving a land holding to a vassal

1

one's house; one's home; one's family

10

(one's) pay; wages

3

just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

7

means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull

3

while crying; tearfully; in tears

4

husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)

1

making do; getting by (somehow); managing

2

worldly wisdom; gumption; stingy person

1

old father

2

side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; homeworking; simple job carried out at home; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending

1

waste; garbage

9

news of someone's death; obituary

1

sudden death

1

overwork; strain

3

condolence; condolences

1

all night long; all through the night

1

to get hold of money

1

to narrowly escape death; to have a narrow escape from death

2

to assert; to declare; to list (one by one); to enumerate; to spread rumours (rumors); to go on and on (about)

2

to criticize harshly; to blame; to accuse; to urge; to press

2

this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind

1

to yield oneself (to something); to devote oneself (to something); to surrender oneself (to something)

4

the Inquisition

1

wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman; (arch.) consort (of the emperor) of the third rank (ritsuryō system)

2

to demand money; to pester; to extort

2

having done this; if this is done; if it is done in this way

2

easy; simple; simple (way of thinking, etc.); simple-minded; soft; lax

3

daddy; father; husband

9

to weigh on one's mind; to worry one; to be concerned about

3

once or twice; repeatedly

1

mother; wife

4

personal attendant; valet; maid

3

to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on

2

to hang (e.g. oneself)

2

to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)

4

excuse; explanation; justification; defense; defence

1

to spend one's days in tears; to weep day and night; to live in sorrow

2

cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made

4

sticky; gluey; gummy; stickiness; something sticky

9

drop (e.g. of water); drip

5

to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish

7

shameless; brazen and unscrupulous

4

beyond saving

1