outdoors; outside; open air; fields; outskirts; suburbs
4th day of the month; four days
time around sunset; early evening
vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot; empty point
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
small build; small stature; petite; small pattern
to fold up; to fold into layers; to collapse (content on a webpage, etc.)
one foot; one leg; one of a pair (of shoes or socks)
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to pick up
frizzy (hair); wiry; sizzling; frizzling; stingingly (of heat or cold); painfully
to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled
to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)
to pull one's hair back into a bun
colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm
rugged; scraggy; angular; gnarled
epidermis; cuticle; bark; epidermis; facade
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)
anesthetic; anaesthetic; narcotic
feminine handwriting; woman's hand
half-crying; being on the verge of crying
father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); seeker; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
messy; confused; chaotic; in a nagging manner; (complaining) about various things
simple; simplified; easy; plain
silent (as the grave); deadly silent; deathly quiet
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade
desperately; for one's dear life
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
two meals; (eating) two meals a day
goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit
point of a spear; spearhead; focus (of one's attack, criticism, etc.); aim; force (of an argument); edge
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
length (of an animal); body length
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar; rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment