jpdb beta

old woman; joker (in old maid)

1

attention seeker; look-at-me

1

old woman; hag; old bag

1

to feign illness

2

funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd

1

to fall ill; to be taken ill

1

something intended as a lie or joke which (by chance) ends up being true; lie turned truth

1

legs and loins; lower body; foundations; underpinnings

1

to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe

1

assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement

1

tottering; staggering; faltering; reeling

1

unsteadily (walking); waddling; staggeringly; totteringly

1

gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy

1

defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)

2

to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

2

gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail

1

slow; weak-headed; dumb

2

slow; weak-headed

1

to be utterly amazed; to be stunned; to be disgusted

1

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

1

stairs; stairway; staircase

2

hitting a dangerous (harmful) spot (e.g. hitting one's head)

1

falsehood; lie

1

to happen to be present

1

on a routine basis; regularly; habitually

1

only; merely; nothing but; no more than

1

time of death; one's final hour; one's end

1

to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate

1

pet saying; favorite phrase; stock phrase; manner of talking

1

(psychological) trauma

1

shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; the background; behind the scenes

1

small person acting arrogantly on someone else's authority; person who borrows the authority of another to browbeat others; (lit.) a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger

1

the last moment; the very end

1

in a subdued voice; in undertones; in a whisper; in a mumble; in a murmur

1

funeral; funeral service

9

indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions

1

to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

1

seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading

1

means; is; as for

1

to get on; to climb on

1

hysteria

1

poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable

1

yes; that is so

1

turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation; being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)

5

to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose

1

to drag in; to pull in

1

to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded

5

high praise; great admiration; with critical acclaim; to rave reviews; currently; presently

1

to continue to work; to work away (at)

1

sooner or later

1