List: colloquial
Words not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics.
colloquial noun noun (generic)
- loan shark, high-interest consumer finance firm
ateji usually written using kana alone colloquial ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- strange, odd, queer, peculiar, weird
gairaigo waseigo English origin colloquial abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- bikini model (usually teenage), pin-up girl
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial
- pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)
- harvestman, daddy longlegs
colloquial expression interjection
- how much, how many, to what extent
- oh my god, how, what the, incredible
adverb colloquial
- if you like, if you prefer, if it suits you, if it's fine with you, if you don't mind, if necessary
- if ... doesn't suit you, if you don't like ..., if ... doesn't take your fancy
- what's more, furthermore
- if so, if that's the case, then
colloquial godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be affected, to put on airs, to pose
colloquial noun noun (generic)
- earnings from a part-time job, part-time job pay
usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb colloquial
- to age, to get old, to go stale
- to be too grown-up (for one's age), to be precocious
- to become twisted, to become warped, to become perverse
colloquial godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb music
- to become jammed (of a printer, gun, etc.)
- to jam, to hold a jam session