jpdb beta

sea breeze; salty wind; briny air

1

(wearing only) a pair of underpants

1

this much; this amount

2

cheek

2

soft; tender; soft (colour, light, etc.); subdued; informal; light

1

wrist

2

rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive

1

facing upward

2

seven

1

unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene

2

art of self-defense (defence)

6

to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

1

dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

1

elementary; basic; rudimentary

2

technique; art; skill; move

2

to fling (away); to hurl

3

boy; bellboy; porter; waiter

2

kung fu

2

star (actor, athlete, etc.); celebrity; star (symbol); asterisk; (celestial) star

1

affectation; pretension; posturing; posing as; behaving as; acting like

1

giving two or three light tugs (or pushes); (arch.) worrying about; (arch.) moping; (arch.) suddenly angry; (arch.) feeling a surge of anger

1

beckoning

1

yes; wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan

1

to fight against; to oppose; to face

1

to mow down; to cut down; to knock down; to defeat; to beat

1

to be splendidly handsome

1

handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler

1

chink in the armor (armour)

3

female molester; lewd woman; libidinous woman; stupid woman

1

son

1

soaked; drenched; sopping; incessantly (raining); drizzling

1

teaching the basics; initiation; introduction

1

to throw oneself (e.g. off a cliff, etc.)

1

literary

1

novelist; fiction writer

1

plant; vegetation

1

phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

5

to imitate; to follow; to copy; to emulate

1

to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death

2

traffic accident

1

trivial; not amounting to much

1

surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand

1

blood transfusion

2

religious; spiritual

1

between life and death

1

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

1

receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death

1

granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman

1

the other world; the next world; the world beyond; world after death

1

this world; this life; world of the living

4