jpdb beta

speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)

2

cockroach

1

oink

1

old friendship

2

scraps; cut end; cut-off piece

1

(piece of) rope; ordinary method

1

endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever

2

split; division; break up

14

mechanical

2

going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth; itachi-gokko; Edo-period children's game in which two players alternately pinch the back of the other's hands and stack them on top of each other while saying "itachi-gokko, nezumi-gokko"

3

all living things; all God's creatures, great and small

3

with; by; because of; on account of; on (a day, date); at (a time)

1

bud; sprout

1

self-preservation

1

easy to imagine

1

negative thinking; pessimism

1

to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

4

after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

4

to examine (medically); to have a look at; to check (a patient's pulse)

1

to begin falling (e.g. leaves, petals, etc.)

1

every meal

4

to get tired of eating; to have enough of (a food)

3

sales; demand

1

swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man

2

harmless but pointless; neither bad nor good

2

bolt from the blue; great surprise

2

criticism; judgement; judgment; comment

1

Jonathan; Jonathan's (family restaurant)

5

Linus

73

the public; general public

1

to apologize; to apologise; to make an apology

2

surroundings; circumference

2

format; procedure; way of proceeding

2

tranquilizer; tranquiliser

1

shut up!; be quiet!

1

craftsman; artisan; workman; carpenter

3

early winter; tenth month of the lunar calendar

8

to get carried away; to become over-excited; to push one's luck; to push a good thing too far

7

to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue

3

forced laugh; forced smile

4

visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; dealing (a hit); striking (a blow)

1

beautiful woman; pretty girl

1

to make a joint vow; to swear together; to pledge

1

to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit

2

knitting; knitted material; crochet

1

to cultivate; to foster

2

to have an ulterior motive; to have an axe to grind

3

sleeping face

9

feel on the tongue (of food or drink); texture

3

first of all; first thing

1