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knife

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to scoop up; to dip up

1

soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself

5

section; cross section; profile

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to daub; to smear

2

thickly; viscously; sleepily; drowsily; dozing off

1

small theatre; kabuki performed in a small theatre; little performance; short acted scene; act

1

leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone

1

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

2

to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)

1

to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

1

with a glitter; with a sparkle; brand new; shiny and new

1

great delight; great satisfaction; rapture

1

tasting; sampling

1

normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type

2

long-handled Chinese spear; lance; weapon; arms; grip of a bow; parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears

1

male carer (at a nursery school, children's home, etc.); childcare worker

1

with a gulp

1

ordinary person; run-of-the-mill people; John Doe; Jane Doe

1

noble; aristocrat; peer

2

fine quality

1

technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft

1

Japan

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food; food products; foodstuffs

1

enterprise; business; company; corporation

1

the Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Horse (around noon, 11am-1pm, or 12 noon-2pm); south; fifth month of the lunar calendar

1

wildly different (in ability, strength, etc.); on another level; in a different league; of different heights; uneven

2

sugar content (e.g. in degrees Brix)

1

nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

2

dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks

1

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

1

by ones and twos; tears or flower petals falling quietly; gurgling bird sound; falling apart; crumbling; dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc.

1

to be smeared; to be covered

1

acting without restraint; self-indulgence; wild license; being pretentious; putting on airs; foppery

1

to be prominent; to be conspicuous

1

to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)

1

salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse

2

spiral

1

as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much

1

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

1

flat-tasting; bland; lacking in flavor; dull; flat; unimaginative

1

good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit

1

condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); condensation (of a vapour or gas)

1

sampling food; tasting; trying

1

(a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

1

3000; three thousand; many

1

changing (one's job, loyalties, stance, etc.); switching over; changing quarters (geisha, prostitute, etc.)

1

opening performance; opening act; curtain raiser; minor performer; minor storyteller; subordinate part

1

conviction; belief; confidence

1

to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected

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