jmdict 1902300 Active (id#2366868)
歯に衣を着せない； 歯に衣をきせない [sK] ； 歯に絹を着せない [sK]
【 はにきぬをきせない 】
  1. [exp,adj-i] [id]
    • outspoken
    • forthright
    • frank
    • direct
    Cross references:
    • ⇒ see: 2399560 歯に衣着せぬ 1. outspoken; forthright; frank; direct
Conjugations
History:
    • A 2026-04-07 21:16:47 Stephen Kraus (id#2366868)
    • Comments
      Aligning glosses. See discussion in comments for 歯に衣着せぬ・2399560.
    • Diff
      @@ -23,2 +23,4 @@
-<gloss>not mince matters</gloss>
-<gloss>not mince one's words</gloss>
+<gloss>outspoken</gloss>
+<gloss>forthright</gloss>
+<gloss>frank</gloss>
+<gloss>direct</gloss>
    • A 2024-02-07 22:27:01 Stephen Kraus (id#2291352)
    • Diff
      @@ -22,0 +23 @@
+<misc>&id;</misc>
    • A 2024-02-07 21:33:50 Stephen Kraus (id#2291344)
    • Comments
      Changing x-ref to 歯に衣着せぬ, which is the most common form of this expression.
    • Refs
      〈歯／は／ハ〉に〈衣／絹／きぬ／キヌ〉を〈着／き〉せない

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 歯に衣を着せない　 │ 2,024 │ 73.8% │
│ 歯に衣をきせない　 │   496 │ 18.1% │ - add, sK
│ 歯に絹を着せない　 │   154 │  5.6% │ - add, sK
│ 歯にきぬを着せない │    47 │  1.7% │
│ はにきぬをきせない │    22 │  0.8% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -5,0 +6,8 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に衣をきせない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に絹を着せない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -13 +21 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2259790">歯に衣着せない</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2399560">歯に衣着せぬ</xref>
    • A 2018-08-11 12:27:05 Robin Scott
    • Comments
      Aligning.
    • Diff
      @@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>not mince one's words</gloss>
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