List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic noun noun (generic)
- stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period)
noun noun (generic) archaic
- man of refined tastes, refined person, tea ceremony master
- lewd man, lecher
noun noun (generic) archaic
- monkey (esp. a gibbon)
- hand of the puppeteer (puppet theatre)
- kappa
- menstrual period
archaic noun noun (generic)
- female servant hired at a lady-in-waiting's own expense
archaic noun noun (generic)
- bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period)
archaic noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă
- collapse, crumbling, breaking down, caving in
irregular okurigana archaic godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to look (into), to peek, to peep
- to stop by, to drop in, to call at
archaic noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- mad, insane
- very surprised
archaic noun noun (generic)
- sunken hearth, sunken fireplace
noun noun (generic) archaic
- normal conversation
- joke