どじょう – Vocabulary details

どじょう

Noun

Usually written in kana

1. loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)

2. weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus); pond loach

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scooping loaches; catching loach in a net; loach-catching dance

Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)

a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; (lit.) there aren't always loaches under the willow tree

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