天てん狗ぐ
Meanings
Noun
1. tengu; red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains
2. bragging; conceit; braggart; boaster; conceited person
Kanji used
heaven
pup
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (31 in total)
to get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; (lit.) to become a tengu
small, crow-billed tengu
large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard
large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard
world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins
weak tengu; small tengu
small, crow-billed tengu
small tengu; promising young martial arts practitioner
rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)
weak tengu; small tengu
person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill
rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)
self-conceited person; ego-tripper; swelled head
self-conceited person; ego-tripper; swelled head
category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece
parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); (lit.) tengu haiku
weak tengu; small tengu
weak tengu; small tengu
panther cap (Amanita pantherina)
person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill
Oishi Tengudo (karuta maker); Ohishi Tengudo
braggart; boaster; self-conceited person
witches' broom (plant disease); hexenbesen
Matsui Tengudo (karuta maker)
short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis)
Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus); bummalo
Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)
tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)