クイ
Meanings
Noun
1. 食うこと。
2. 魚が餌に食い付くこと。
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (40 in total)
① アリクイ亜目の総称。ありやしろありを常食とする。
① 人を食べること。食人。カニバリズム。② 人に食いつくこと。その獣。
① 見栄えの良い人を好むこと。見栄えの良い人を好んで、その人に近づいたり交際したりすることを希求すること。② 見栄えの良い人を好む人。交際相手に見栄えの良い人を望む人。
food; foodstuff; prey; victim
bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.); gribble (Limnoria lignorum)
bite (in fishing)
① 虫が食うこと。虫に食われたものや虫に食われたあと。② 白磁の皿や鉢などの縁に見られる小さな釉が剝落したあと。③ 老い鶯。残鶯。④ スズメ目ウグイス科ムシクイ類に属する鳥の総称。
leaving a restaurant without paying; dine and dash; bilking
digging into (e.g. one's skin); cutting into; inroads (e.g. into a market); encroachment (e.g. on territory); deficit; loss
bringing ruin upon oneself by extravagance in food
with intense concentration; eagerly; intently; devouringly
glutton; gourmand
food and drink; eating and drinking
gluttony
difference; disagreement; conflict; clash; discrepancy; inconsistency
appetite
cost of one's food; one's board
substantiality (of a meal); fillingness; solidity
all-you-can-eat
gourmand; epicure
money loser; high-cost, low-return project
half-eaten
stuffing oneself with food; eating enough to go without food for some time
combination (e.g. of foodstuffs); dovetailing; fitting together
missing a meal
binge eating
game in which a dangling piece of bread is grabbed in the mouth and raced to the finish line (in school sports festivals)
hanger-on; dependent; someone who is received coldly; third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate)
eating like a dog; sloppy eating; (arch.) dog fighting
losing the means of livelihood; (arch.) a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended; (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook
seductress; coquette; minx
fish biting (striking, taking bait)
overeating
womanizer; philanderer; playboy
food expenses
rice weevil
weaning ceremony
in season; at its best; ready for eating
rumination; cud
biting one another; long and short market interests