jmdict 2259790 Active (id#2366867)
歯に衣着せない； 歯に絹着せない [sK] ； 歯に衣きせない [sK]
【 はにきぬきせない 】
  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 21:16:05 Stephen Kraus (id#2366867)
    • Comments
      In the comments for 歯に衣着せぬ・2399560 in Feb. 2024, I said I was going to align all four of the entries and Jim agreed.
It seems I overlooked the glosses on a couple of those entries.
    • 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* 2026-04-07 19:08:56 (id#2366837)
    • Comments
      why glosses differ from 歯に衣着せぬ?
    • A 2024-02-07 22:27:08 Stephen Kraus (id#2291353)
    • Diff
      @@ -22,0 +23 @@
+<misc>&id;</misc>
    • A 2024-02-07 21:35:42 Stephen Kraus (id#2291345)
    • Comments
      Adding 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〉〈着／き〉せない

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 歯に衣着せない　 │ 2,609 │ 88.3% │
│ 歯に絹着せない　 │   200 │  6.8% │ - add, sK
│ 歯に衣きせない　 │   106 │  3.6% │ - add, sK
│ 歯にきぬ着せない │    39 │  1.3% │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -5,0 +6,8 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に絹着せない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に衣きせない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -12,0 +21 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2399560">歯に衣着せぬ</xref>
    • A 2018-08-11 01:02:42 Jim Breen
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