aiming for laughs; trying to make people laugh; playing to the crowd; crowd-pleaser
shade; tone; tinge; hue; colour; color
plastic food models used by restaurants
long face; looking dejected
trees with entwined branches; intimate male and female relationship
(arch.) I; (arch.) me; (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
(small crunchy) dried sardines
sly; cunning; sneaky; miserly; mean; stingy
bell cricket (Meloimorpha japonicus); (arch.) pine cricket (Xenogryllus marmoratus)
ruffian; villain; peculiar person; idiosyncratic person; tricky thing; something that is more than it seems
government service; official position; civil service
eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
to air; to dry; to drain (off); to drink up; to deprive of a role, job, etc.
you're lying; yeah, right; liar; fibber
clothes; female genitals; vagina; calf; last (on the list); (at the) bottom
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
gaudy (esp. of makeup or clothing); garish; glitzy; loud
Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family
trifle; insignificant thing; (only) this much
popular figure; person in demand; favorite; favourite