jpdb beta

mimicking a bird or animal call; imitating a call or a sound

1

tradition; legend

1

astounding; tremendous; crazy; exorbitant

1

to go by; to cross; to pass by; to flash across

2

to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees

4

white of the eye; cold, unwelcoming eyes

2

reality; actuality; hard fact

2

to detain; to check; to restrain

1

it's no joke; gimme a break!

1

how many; how old

1

to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

2

to laugh mockingly; to smile with contempt; to jeer; to sneer

2

to do as one likes

1

crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)

3

anyhow; in any case

3

jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up

1

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

5

sand; grit

6

bee; wasp; hornet

1

to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)

5

camel; camel (cloth); cloth made from camel hair; camel (color); light yellowish brown

2

one revolution; one rotation

6

ditch with running water; drainage channel

6

to stick into; to pierce; to run into

2

he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; (lit.) fleeing is winning

2

still (continuing); as ever; further

1

to rise; to erect; to get up

3

anger; rage; fury; wrath; indignation

6

to be dyed; to be tainted; to be infected; to be stained

3

close to the ear

2

to face; to go towards; to head towards

5

loud voice

5

weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)

1

storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)

1

to rage; to run amok (amuck); to tear around

1

before long; even now

6

brigand; bandit

1

to cause trouble (for); to have a harmful effect (on); to involve (someone) in trouble

1

lying on one's belly; crawling on one's belly; belly crawl

1

fighting spirit

8

in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run

2

rioter; ruffian

1

seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that

7

particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

3

feigned ignorance; pretending not to recognize (somebody); unconcerned air; indifference

1

one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game

1

to allow a less skilled person to practice with one (esp. in sumo)

1

military family; warrior class

5

distinction (e.g. between right and wrong, public and private, etc.)

1

patronage; protection

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