List: colloquial
Words not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics.
gairaigo English origin popular colloquial noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb sports
- ignoring, looking the other way, letting pass
- passing through, going through
- leaving a passing ball for a teammate (in soccer), letting the ball go past, dummy
- ball going through the net and landing in the opponent's half (in tennis)
popular colloquial noun noun (generic) physics rare term
- spirits, excitement, energy level, (good) mood
- tension
- tension (mental strain), anxiety
gairaigo French origin popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb colloquial
- debut, doing something for the first time
- starting anew, starting afresh
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- near miss
- just missing (each other)
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation colloquial
- barcode, bar code
- comb-over (hairstyle)
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) colloquial noun
- flapping, rattling, fluttering
- (running) with a clatter, noisily, thrashing (around), floundering, flailing
- (falling) one after another, in quick succession
- busily, hurriedly, in a fluster, in a rush, rushing around, bustling about, scurrying
- quickly, briskly, with dispatch
- motorcycle, three-wheeler truck
popular noun noun (generic) baseball sports colloquial abbreviation
- pace, speed, rate
- pitch (distance between evenly spaced things, e.g. gear teeth), spacing, interval
- pitch (of a sound)
- pitch, pitching
- stroke rate (in rowing)
- pitch (in climbing), section between rest stops (in mountaineering)
- pitch (from distilling petroleum, coal tar, etc.)
- pitch (soccer, rugby, etc.), field
- personal handy-phone system, PHS
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- pill
- birth-control pill, oral contraceptive, the pill
popular food, cooking noun noun (generic) colloquial jocular, humorous term
- pudding (esp. custard)
- black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black
gairaigo German origin popular mathematics physics noun noun (generic) colloquial
- vector
- direction (e.g. of one's activities or interests), focus