jpdb beta

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

2

with a bang

1

knock on wood; touch wood; heaven forbid; God help me; absit omen!

1

to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

3

(clenched) fist; knuckles

4

playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

1

lunch; midday meal

2

reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryo codes)

1

of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless

1

handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler

3

big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important

15

foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; means of transportation

2

eyelashes

1

long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged

2

watering hole; watering place

2

living thing; living creature; animal; life

6

to gather; to collect; to assemble

5

to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life

1

amateur; novice; layman

2

to chase; to run after; to pursue

2

(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently

2

to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake

2

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

2

to become; to amount to

20

to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen

7

cloud

2

flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness

2

maturity; ripeness

1

beginning; outset; first; onset

6

to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

2

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

15

I; me

29

to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of

1

older brother; elder brother

2

person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute

3

a foolish or stupid look

1

be; is

2

siesta

1

hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour

13

to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with

6

pilling; lint; furball; hairball; trichobezoar

2

meaning; called; said

4

everybody

2

well then ...; in that situation; in which case

10

-ish; -like

2

one animal (small); (arch.) two-tan bolt of cloth

3

(not) even; (not) any

2

this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent

1

to rumble; to thunder; to roll about (people, large objects); to wander about without a fixed workplace, home, etc.; to hang around; to loiter

1