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天狗 [spec1,news2,nf26]
【 てんぐ [spec1,news2,nf26] 】
1. [n]
▶ tengu
▶ [expl] red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1486980 鼻高【はなたか】 3. tengu
  ⇐ see: 2835801 大天狗【だいてんぐ】 1. large tengu; powerful tengu
  ⇐ see: 2846436 鞍馬天狗【くらまてんぐ】 1. Kurama tengu; tengu of Kyoto's Mount Kurama, said to have taught the art of war to Minamoto no Yoshitsune
  ⇐ see: 1438870 天狗話【てんぐばなし】 2. story about tengu
  ⇐ see: 2593330 木っ葉天狗【こっぱてんぐ】 1. weak tengu; small tengu
  ⇐ see: 2593320 木の葉天狗【このはてんぐ】 1. weak tengu
  ⇐ see: 2846437 金天狗【きんてんぐ】 1. golden tengu
  ⇐ see: 2846439 天狗道【てんぐどう】 1. world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins
  ⇐ see: 1845420 烏天狗【からすてんぐ】 1. small, crow-billed tengu
  ⇐ see: 2835803 天狗物【てんぐもの】 1. category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece
  ⇐ see: 2835804 小天狗【こてんぐ】 1. small tengu
  ⇐ see: 2835805 天狗倒し【てんぐだおし】 1. large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain
  ⇐ see: 2850756 八天狗【はってんぐ】 1. hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine
  ⇐ see: 2596000 天狗になる【てんぐになる】 1. to get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; to become a tengu
  ⇐ see: 2853535 天狗俳諧【てんぐはいかい】 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 haiku
2. [n] [id]
▶ bragging
▶ conceit
▶ braggart
▶ boaster
▶ conceited person
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2835801 大天狗【だいてんぐ】 2. big braggart; blowhard



History:
11. A 2022-02-07 01:25:42  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
10. A* 2022-02-07 01:23:54  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
since we have so many entries xreffing this entry, I feel we could expand a little on what a tengu is.
  Diff: 
@@ -19 +19 @@
-<gloss>long-nosed goblin</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains</gloss>
9. A 2019-07-17 08:39:07  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
daijs
  Diff: 
@@ -24,0 +25 @@
+<gloss>conceit</gloss>
@@ -26,0 +28 @@
+<gloss>conceited person</gloss>
8. A 2019-07-17 04:28:19  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
GG5, etc.
  Comments: 
That sense is in most references.
  Diff: 
@@ -25,0 +26 @@
+<gloss>boaster</gloss>
7. A* 2019-07-16 09:26:55 
  Refs: 
https://news.biglobe.ne.jp/entertainment/0716/ncz_190716_0757711878.html
"とはいえ、入社数年の社員が目上のプロデューサーに対してとった行動としてはあまりに非常識だったため、ネット上では「普通の人は怒りでコーヒーをジャーと捨てる
ことはまずないです」「『要りません』と断るか、飲まなければいいだけ。ジャーッと捨てなきゃいけない意味がわからない」「一般企業の人事異動だっていきなりのほう
が多くない？」「どんだけ天狗なんだよ」と批判コメントが飛び交うなど炎上状態となっている。"
Is it really about bragging? In this case I read it more as "what a conceited person"
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