jpdb beta

bumping of heads; running into; coming across; encountering

1

going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)

1

cruelty; hard-heartedness

1

right in the middle (of); midst; height

1

idiot; fool; dope

1

Yūbari melon (sweet orange melon grown in Yūbari City, Hokkaido)

6

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

1

looking or acting as if one owned the place

1

occupation (e.g. of territory); exclusive possession

1

absurd; ridiculous; nonsense; excessive; extreme

1

stairs; stairway; staircase

1

second floor; upstairs

2

to raise (one's voice)

1

I don't need it; I don't want it

1

light; easy; non-serious; minor

1

not knowing when to let go (give up, etc.); unwilling to resign; having lingering attachment; regretful

1

early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar

1

division into equal parts; equal parts

1

flesh of fruit

1

spoon

1

to say all kinds of things; to complain; to find fault (with)

1

understanding person; supporter

1

somehow; for some reason or other

2

doctor

2

middle of the night; dead of night

1

to project; to protrude; to pop out (e.g. eyes); to jump out; to rush out

1

slow; weak-headed; dumb

1

heredity; (genetic) inheritance

1

discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude

2

pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)

2

whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod

1

of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant

1

and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

1

sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake

2

Board of Education

1

very hungry; starving; fawning; bowing and scraping; giving in; being dented

1

menial; meanness; servility; abject

2

bending; curving; warping (of feelings, logic, etc.); distortion; refraction; inflection

2

various evils; every kind of evil; all evils

2

base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source

1

to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart

2

10,000 yen bill

1

100 yen coin

1

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

1

to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)

1

to show each other

1

messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

2

moaning; muttering; complaining

2

compared to

1

making do; getting by (somehow); managing

1