牢獄の花嫁 – Vocabulary list

追おい風かぜ

tailwind; fair wind; favorable wind (favourable); favorable condition (favourable); advantageous situation

1

度ど胸きょう

courage; bravery; pluck; nerve; grit; guts

2

ふてくされる

to become sulky; to become irresponsible (due to disgruntlement)

2

凄せい艶えん

weirdly beautiful

1

立たて膝ひざ

sitting with one knee drawn up

1

すぱり

completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow

1

のどか

tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful

1

においがする

to smell; to smell of; to have a smell

1

蠱こ惑わく

fascination; glamour; glamor; enchantment; seduction

1

ちらつく

to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

1

勝かっ手てにしやがれ

À bout de souffle (French film, 1959); Breathless

1

しみったれる

to be stingy; to be tightfisted

1

あきれ顔がお

look of amazement; looking dumbfounded

1

はばかり

hesitation; hindrance; washroom

1

おまえ達たち

you (plural)

6

町ちょう人にん根こん性じょう

townsman's (independent) spirit; mercantile spirit

1

じたばた

(kicking and) struggling; wriggling; floundering; to get into a panic; to make a fuss; to make a scene

1

かんちょう

government office; government agency; authorities

1

老おいぼれ

dotage; feeble-minded old man; senile old fool; dotard

2

憎にくまれ口ぐちをたたく

to say nasty things (about); to use abusive language

1

焦しょう眉び

emergency; urgency; imminence

2

一いっ策さく

idea; plan

1

侠おとこ気ぎ

chivalrous spirit; chivalry

4

若わかい者もの

young man; young woman; young people; young employee; young manservant; young follower

4

はやぶね

(arch.) fast-moving rowboat; type of fast military ship

1

二ふたつながら

both

1

どうすることもできない

beyond one's control; nothing one can do

1

まなこ

eye; eyeball; (arch.) pupil and (dark) iris of the eye; (arch.) insight; (arch.) perceptivity; (arch.) look

1

棘とげ

thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words

2

妹いもうと

younger sister

12

はぐろ

tooth blackening

2

奇き妙みょう

strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious

1

生うまれつき

by nature; by birth; naturally; natural; innate

3

なれ

practice; practising; experience

1

と言いっても

although I say; although one might say; although called

2

柳りゅう

Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

2

仕し込こみ

training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha

1

へえ

oh, yes?; really?

1

雛すう妓ぎ

child geisha; geisha apprentice

6

おしゃく

pouring alcohol; person pouring alcohol for guests or customers (typically a woman); (apprentice) geisha; dancing girl

6

したのかい

lower floor

1

今いまのうち

now (while the time is ripe); while one still can

1

洗あらい上あげる

to finish washing; to wash well; to investigate thoroughly

1

江え戸ど前まえ

Tokyo style

1

芸げい者しゃ

geisha; professional female entertainer, usu. at traditional banquets

1

中なか洲す

sandbank (in a river); sandbar

1

橋はし杭ぐい

bridge pillar

2

あくち

marshland

1

尺しゃく度ど

gauge; standard; length; size; (measuring) rule; scale

1

むき出だし

naked; bare; uncovered; frank; open; blunt

1

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Vocabulary list: 牢獄の花嫁