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piping hot; scalding; madly in love; passionately in love

1

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

1

meat sauce; Bolognese sauce

2

freezing; cold storage; refrigeration

1

thaw; defrosting; decompression (e.g. of a file); unpacking; extracting

1

home (of something); place famous for its ...; place of origin; birthplace; morning session; last session in the morning

1

you could say; you might say; verging on the

1

New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day

1

they

2

care; attentiveness; attention; consideration (for others); solicitude

1

beginning of the year; early in the New Year

1

joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing

1

to be effeminate; to be a fop; to break into a smile; to grin

1

bull's-eye; the mark

1

blunt; to the point; direct; outspoken; frank

1

face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts); ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house

1

engine

1

extent; scope; sphere; range; span

1

to look around; to survey

1

to dye; to colour; to color

1

large drop (rain, sweat, tears, etc.); large grain-like object (grape, cherry, etc.)

1

to cling to; to stick to; to lie flat (e.g. on the ground)

1

news programme; news program

1

special radio or television programme; television special

1

spot news

1

cold wave

1

to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into

1

end; break

1

temple (side of head)

1

to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) somebody down (esp. with sexual connotations)

1

to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)

2

inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)

2

sense of responsibility

1

nowhere

1

reflexive; reflecting

1

to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled

2

saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot

1

ambush; troops in ambush; unexpected opposition; unexpected obstacle

1

lately; recently

1

forgetting the hardships of the old year; forgetting one another's age difference

1

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

1

pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability

1

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

1

soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve

1

osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays

1

soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

2

tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter

8

soba in hot broth; soba without any trimmings

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deep-fried food

2

open kitchen

2