maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
professionalism; professional awareness
take (e.g. in film-making)
swimming; bathing; getting on in the world
to attend on; to wait on; to accompany; to escort; to chaperone
panty-less; wearing no underwear
overly optimistic; easygoing; irresponsible; naive; simple-minded
(wicker) basket used for carrying fish; creel
to become popular; to grow in popularity; to catch on
answering machine; answerphone
woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)
to slap; to strike; to spank
to be dizzy; to feel faint; to feel giddy
kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)
to flare up; to fly into a rage
once; one time; exclusively; only; alone
congestion (e.g. traffic); delay; stagnation
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
wild enthusiasm; being crazy about
gorilla (Gorilla spp., esp. western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla)
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
fresh; refreshing; invigorating; clear (e.g. voice); fluent; eloquent
child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted
unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
established practice; custom
that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that
performance; appearance (in a stage, film, TV show, etc.)