Words — 53 found
けいめいくとう
鶏鳴狗盗
1. person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricksYojijukugo (four character compound)
つてんぐ
釣り天狗
1. person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill
釣天狗 【つりてんぐ】
てんぐはいかい
天狗俳諧
1. parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haikuSee also 天狗
てんぐだお
天狗倒し
1. large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountainSee also 天狗, from the idea that such sounds came from trees being felled by tengu
1. dog meat; dog flesh
ようとうくにく
羊頭狗肉
1. crying wine and selling vinegar; deceptive advertisementYojijukugo (four character compound)
てんぐざる
天狗猿
1. proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus); long-nosed monkeyUsually written using kana alone
テングザル