jpdb beta

banknote; bill; note; paper money

3

field; plain; hidden interior part (of a structure or object); wild (of an animal or plant)

1

young greens; young herbs

1

to pick; to pluck; to snip; to cut; to nip

2

sleeve

1

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

4

tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?

5

green grass; young (fresh) grass

1

borderline; boundary

2

match (for lighting a fire)

2

it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but

4

tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes

2

height (e.g. of summer); peak (e.g. of cherry blossom season); prime (of one's life); (one's) best days; (being in) heat; rut

1

ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card

2

touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz); making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant); foul (comp. karuta); touching a card which is not in the same territory as the correct card

1

great erudition; extensive knowledge; vast stock of knowledge

1

museum

1

yelping; yapping

2

not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is

5

crossing; intersection

2

jackknife

1

abuse; curse; swearing; insult

2

to fold (clothes, umbrella); to close (a shop, business); to vacate

4

fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material

4

silly person; dumb-bunny; dope

2

junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends

1

flower pattern

1

field of flowers; flower garden; field of alpine flowers; fantasy; delusion

1

(undesirable but) inseparable relationship

1

Jallais

1

eyesore; offensive sight; offense to the eye; obstruction (to the view of something)

1

blunt (e.g. sword); dull; lazy; cowardly; good for nothing

2

khan (medieval ruler of a Tatary tribe)

3

to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse

4

frantic (crying); wild

1

supplier

1

misfortune; short life; evil fate

1

banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up

2

for use by children; for children

1

to work one's way up

2

to step forward; to take a step forward

1

Bavarian cream; bavarois

2

mammoth (esp. the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius); gigantic; huge; enormous

3

destruction; disruption; (application) crash

5

playback

2

everywhere; all over; throughout

1

New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia); new world

1

to take root (of a plant); to strike root; to root; to become established (e.g. of an idea, a movement); to take hold; to take root

1

rush; dash; charge

3

glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)

1