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坊主 ぼうず

  1. Buddhist priest; bonze
  2. close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head
  3. boy; lad; sonny
  4. getting skunked; not catching anything
  5. the August 20-point card

坊主くさい ぼうずくさい

  1. monkish; overly pious; priestly; sanctimonious

坊主めくり ぼうずめくり

  1. bozu mekuri; simple card game played with the 100 picture cards of a hyakunin isshu deck

坊主丸儲け ぼうずまるもうけ

  1. a monk's earnings are pure profit (due to needing no capital and having no expenses)

坊主刈り ぼうずがり

  1. closely cropped hair

坊主憎けりゃ袈裟まで憎い ぼうずにくけりゃけさまでにくい

  1. hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments; if you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for

坊主殺し ぼうずごろし

  1. female or male prostitute serving a monk; luring a monk into depredation

坊主沙魚 ぼうずはぜ

  1. Sicyopterus japonicus (species of goby)

坊主畳 ぼうずだたみ

  1. tatami mat without a "heri" edge

坊主頭 ぼうずあたま

  1. close-cropped hair; shaven head
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