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食う くう N3

  1. to eat
  2. to live; to make a living; to survive
  3. to bite; to sting (as insects do)
  4. to make fun of; to make light of; to taunt; to tease; to torment
  5. to consume; to eat into; to encroach on
  6. to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
  7. to consume resources; to consume time
  8. to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
  9. to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

食うや食わず くうやくわず

  1. (living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistence

煽りを食う あおりをくう

  1. to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus; to suffer a blast or indirect blow

巣食う すくう

  1. to build a nest; to nest
  2. to be based (in); to hang out (of a bad group); to haunt
  3. to be planted; to lodge (in one's mind; of an evil thought, delusion, etc.); to luck (in one's heart)

泡を食う あわをくう

  1. to be confused; to be flurried; to lose one's head

蓼食う虫も好き好き たでくうむしもすきずき

  1. every man to his taste; some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste

貪り食う むさぼりくう

  1. to devour; to eat greedily; to gobble up; to wolf down

蚊の食うほどにも思わぬ かのくうほどにもおもわぬ

  1. unaffected; untroubled; unworried

霞を食う かすみをくう

  1. to live on air; to live on nothing; to live without a means of income

飯を食う めしをくう

  1. to eat; to have a meal
  2. to earn one's bread; to make a living
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