jpdb beta

dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid; boring; prosaic

1

to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

1

(in) one's own way

1

500; five hundred; many

1

eighty; 80

1

straw doll; straw figure; straw effigy

1

goods; article; thing

3

the masses; the lower classes; the common people

3

manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)

1

blood (in one's face, cheeks, etc.); colour; color; hot-bloodedness; hotheadedness; impulsive temperament

2

to run out (e.g. of the room)

1

to shout at

1

to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps

1

coming to nothing

1

doubtful; questionable; uncertain; disputable; suspicious

1

nod deeply; glugging; drinking deeply

2

reluctantly; grudgingly; unwillingly

1

store; shop; restaurant

1

passbook; bankbook

1

handful; small amount; small number

1

to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on

2

unit price; unit cost

1

penetrating cold

1

manager; controller; chief treasurer; boss (of a gambling den)

1

to buy all (of something) one can get one's hands on; to buy up; to scoop up

1

guest of honor; guest of honour; good customer; important customer

2

(another's) daughter; young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing)

1

to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)

1

district; section; sector

1

loan; lending; favor; favour; creditor; method of lending

1

to deliver; to extradite; to stretch across; to hand over

1

to be possessed by an evil spirit; to be tempted; to give in to an urge; to succumb to temptation

1

entreaty; supplication; petition

1

person in the same line of business; people in the same trade; the trade; the profession

1

to bind up; to tie up

2

to walk someone off (e.g. to the police station)

1

crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm

1

surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance

1

newborn

1

fawn

1

uncertain; doubtful; unreliable; unsteady; unclear; vague

1

gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail

1

to throw away

1

pant; gasp

1

third; no. three

1

padlock

1

rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks

4

iron door

1

lonely

1

bluish; tinged with blue

1