jpdb beta

child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting

7

confusion; disturbance; commotion; chaos; disorder

1

manufacturing equipment; production machine; maker

4

selfishness

1

nature; character

1

big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage

2

large sum (of money)

2

labour pains; labor pains; birth pains; contractions

1

humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners

1

parent lottery (i.e. not being able to choose one's parents); one's circumstances or prospects in life being determined by one's parents

1

how are you?

1

final month of pregnancy; month in which childbirth is due

2

to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of

1

(appropriate for) one's age

1

gluteus maximus

1

the person concerned; the person in question; the said person

5

humerus

1

radius

1

ulna

1

to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

1

nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious

1

to be suspected without cause

1

rival candidate; rival; opponent; rival horse

1

having to be; must be; should be; ought to be

1

relation; connection; affinity

2

plan; intention

1

to rub out; to clean off; to clear away; to efface; to erase

1

voluntary retirement

9

absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity

1

small (token of one's gratitude, etc.); little (something by way of thanks); mere (trifle)

1

Brass knuckles

4

bump (e.g. on forehead); lump; protuberance; swelling

1

interruption (e.g. of a conversation)

1

sago cycad (Cycas revoluta); king sago palm; sago palm; Japanese sago palm

20

izuna; pipe fox; fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses; keeper of an izuna

12

puppeteer; puppet player; wirepuller; string-puller; man behind the scenes

7

blowgun; blowpipe; (blowgun) dart

2

crow (Corvus spp.); raven

2

sex change; gender reassignment; sex change; sequential hermaphroditism

4

realm of the dead; the other world; underworld; hell

2

to swell; to become swollen; to become puffy (e.g. face from lack of sleep); to become bloated (esp. from fluid retention)

1

to choose the best; to select carefully; to handpick

2

weakest

1

platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala

1

legless chair (used in a room with tatami flooring)

2

straight-sets victory; straight-set win

2

respect

1

to throw one's weight around; to exercise one's authority; to make one's presence felt

1

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

1

combination; union; bond; join (in relational algebra)

2